01 a. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
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Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.“Half mankind maintain a churlish strife.” — Cowper.
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Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.