| 单词 |
churlishness |
| 释义 |
churlishness|ˈtʃɜːlɪʃnɪs| [f. churlish + -ness.] Churlish quality or state; rudeness, roughness, sullenness, harshness, niggardliness.
1528Tindale Parable Wicked Mam. Wks. I. 117 The cruelness and churlishness of father and mother. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 226 Some..geue nothing but either with pride of looke, or with chorlishnesse of wordes they vpbraide it. 1659Gentl. Call. (1696) 46 The churlishness of a Nabal makes men they cannot speak to him. 1846De Quincey Chr. as Organ Pol. Movem. Wks. (1859) XII. 245 What churlishness, if you should grudge to others a health which does not interfere with your own! |

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