How To Use Churl In A Sentence

“And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
I ejaculated mentally , " you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.
It seems churlish to quibble over the fact that there is no lamb.
Today's pop quiz is in honor of an actress for whom I once had precious little respect and whose casting over any number of other performers got me feeling dischuffed to the point of, if not beyond, churlishness until one day I found myself inexplicably fond of her and ashamed of my earlier thuggish disrespect. Who Goes There - Pop Quiz
Not since the days when a churl suffered extravagant penalties for offending a Norman lord have we seen such disparities of treatment within our justice system.

Works so hard that it always seems a little churlish to criticise. Times, Sunday Times
In one incident, an English "churl" who was renowned for weightlifting had a habit of challenging passers-by to hit him on the back with a board for 3 pence to see if it would cause any damage. May 2009
The only prize a churlish young whelp like you should get is a good hiding!
If he did, he would know that the word churl OE. ceorl m. is historically, and currently, loaded with class distinction. Archive 2006-01-01
Kids today are rude, surly and churlish - but not ours any more.
Only a churl would wish to detract from the inspired performances of competitors in cycling, swimming and gymnastics.
I ejaculated mentally , " you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.
It would be churlish to note the disparity between Spark's fastidious energy and the pedestrianism of this book, were the disparity not so glaring.
You heard about feminists and their arguments, and maybe they sounded "shrill" or "churlish" or "bitchy" to your patriarchally-attuned ears. "I'm not that!"
But it seems rather churlish to criticise a president for lacking vision and then to ridicule him when he tries to be visionary.
'Where the doorkeeper is a churl, what will folk say of the master of the house?' said Scudamore. St. George and St. Michael
Only the flintiest churl would look at this and find nothing to rejoice in. TV review: The Hour; Angry Boys
As with anyone who appears on television by choice, it would be churlish not to own up to at least a soupçon of vanity.
It seems churlish to criticise referees, but his second half performance had to be seen to be believed.
I truly believe “it’s the thought that counts”, and think it’s the worst kind of churlishness to resent any sincere gift, no matter what it is. Lean Left » Blog Archive » The Airing of Grievances: Last of the Year (I Hope)
Maybe it is churlish to cling to the belief that really, as in horse racing, the best seasons see thoroughbred quality separate itself from the throng. Times, Sunday Times
There was a surge of muttering among the guardsmen, but most of it seemed to be agreement that the young man was more churl than Charl. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
He would not offer a churlish roof to his visitors.
Fans of studio politics everywhere understand that while Harvey's a boor, Bob is merely churlish, and boors hardly ever stand down for churls.
If so, it might be churlish to point it out, lest you make them feel awkward. Times, Sunday Times
It seemed equally churlish to point out that all good things come to an end. Times, Sunday Times
He, along with Graeme Nicol and the lyric mountain churl Tom Patey (who died in 1970 falling off a sea stack called The Maiden), did the first ascent of Ben Nevis's Zero Gully, then one of the hardest ice climbs in the world, in 1957.
As a professor, it would be the height of churlishness to complain about such industrious habits.
It seems churlish to criticise this, but it can hardly be considered best. Times, Sunday Times
I jarred him awake and made my apologies to her before dragging the very intoxicated churl into his room.
Only a churl would deny anyone the consolation of hope.
It would have been more than churlish to complain - besides, it gives us a great excuse to return. Times, Sunday Times
Rory's churlishness doesn't keep his family from rushing to his hospital bedside, however.
I think it would be churlish to criticise the efforts that have been made around the globe to help.
If you chase someone to repay the tenner you lent them, you look mean-spirited and churlish.
It is one of the great unsolved contradictions in life that a people so universally helpful, friendly and cheerful should turn into churls when at the wheel of a tractor.
Churl I'll drop the love - juice in your eyes. Hey !
But he was well requited by Faustus, even with the like payment: for he said to him, "Thou dotish clown, void of all humanity, seeing thou art of so churlish a disposition, I will pay thee as thou hast deserved, for the four wheels of thy waggon thou shalt have taken from thee; let me see then how thou canst shift. Mediaeval Tales
Back at Balbirnie, it seemed churlish to forego afternoon tea.
If so, it might be churlish to point it out, lest you make them feel awkward. Times, Sunday Times
The parents of these churlish, raffish youths should be held responsible.
It would surely be churlish to deny that this was a start.
E. B. DuBois, who explained it as the inevitable consequence of forced labor: All observers spoke of the fact that the slaves were slow and churlish; that they wasted material and malingered at their work. A Renegade History of the United States
It is, in fact, an exceptionally charming story, and even hard-hearted churls will find themselves smiling with beatific indulgence by the end of it.
Being pampered, of course, is one of the main reasons why people book into luxury hotels, and it would be churlish to resent it.
He would not offer a churlish roof to his visitors.
It would be churlish to criticise. The Sun
She was offering them cups of tea and it was churlish to refuse.
The churlish response of the anti-noise brigade is sadly only what we have come to expect of them.
Nabal was, a fool but for his money, shall not be complimented with the title of a gentleman or a prince; nor shall they call a churl, that minds none but himself, does no good with what he has, but is an unprofitable burden of the earth, My lord; or, rather, they shall not say of him, He is rich; for so the word signifies. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
CHURL:The word bombshell implies war and violence; try using, "a significant incendiary device. Crooks and Liars
Being pampered, of course, is one of the main reasons why people book into luxury hotels, and it would be churlish to resent it.
My father, however, is a proud man, a gallant knight and tried soldier of the oldest blood, to whom this man's churlish birth and low descent ---- Oh, lackaday! The White Company
My father, however, is a proud man, a gallant knight and tried soldier of the oldest blood, to whom this man's churlish birth and low descent -- -- Oh, lackaday! The White Company
He would not offer a churlish roof to his visitors.
She proudly talked of herself as the one who set the bones in his nose, and said she had been waiting to see what churl hurt him without reason.
All that atmosphere means not to linger over the excellent coffee would be churlish.
Insult was added to injury in that the oppressor was no knight in shining armour, but a very churl of men; to the courteous and cultured Irishman a "bodach Sassenach," a man of low blood, of low cunning, caring only for the things of the body, with no veneration for the things of the spirit -- with, in fine, no music in his soul. The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914
The great champion of New York starchitecture happens to not like the term, which he calls a portmanteau for the “churlish.” The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate
Press_, where the peer and the commoner, the priest and the alderman, the friar and the swaddler, [2] can stretch themselves at full length, provided they be not too churlish, let us laugh at those who breed useless quarrels, and set to the world the bright example of toleration and benevolence. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
Such thronging to the wicket, and such churlish answers, and such bare beef-bones, such a shouldering at the buttery-hatch and cellarage, and nought to be gained beyond small insufficient single ale, or at best with a single straike of malt to counterbalance a double allowance of water — “By the mass, though, my young friend,” said he, while he saw the food disappearing fast under The Abbot
The Fry Chronicles" is so slickly charming it seems churlish to harrumph, so I'll merely take a page out of Mr. Fry's book to comment that his compilation of crotchets can be both compelling and cockamamie. True Tales of a Happy Hypocrite
Yet given the fact that this headbanger's journey comes complete with a virtually non-stop metal soundtrack and is clearly a one-sided argument, it seems churlish to pretend that it was made for anyone but the die-hard metal brigade.
Throughout his life Watson's conduct was unpleasant and churlish.
The first thing he did was holler, ‘Quiet down you churls!’
It would be churlish to refuse, so he downs one, then another, then another.
On hearing this, off galloped Thorir and his men, but the bogs were a sort of quagmire, wherein the horses stuck fast; and remained wallowing and struggling for the greater part of the day, while the riders 'gave to the devil withal the wandering churl who had so befooled them.' The Book of Romance
I never expected to have something friends kept telling me to great churlishness on my part I would inevitably experience at this occasion: fun. Erica Heller: The Catch-22 of Book Readings, The Taste of Mackerel
Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of Ulysses
But Schurle, too, grew up on a Kansas farm, where at age 13 he had to overhaul the engine on his father's 1949 Frazer.
I tell the bar girl to fetch him the good stuff from the small casks, not the maroon vinegar we serve the churls, then sit next to him.
Eliot's willingness to put aside his Sphinx-like mask may have led him to say too much, but it seems churlish to hold that against him.
It is childishness, Zoo, but I think a better descriptor would be "churlishness". bit is a little cantankerous today. Think Progress
She would think him churlish if he refused.
It is the audacity with which they conduct themselves, their churlishness, which is so intolerable. Why Is The Taliban Being Imposed On Tribal Areas?
FROM OVID. tjy retous churl, of unforgiving kind aider to the bloody prieft refign'd: iger was no plea; for that (he dy'd» it came next in order, to be tiy'd: it had cropt the tendrils of the viner since laity and clergy join, me had loft his profit, one his wine* is at leaft, fome (hadow of offence: ep was facrinVd on no pretence,, The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson
The empirical basis of his work is sound and it would be churlish to complain of the absence of any overarching theory.
The man who dwells for long periods face to face with the bitter truths of life learns so to distrust a fleeting moment of joy, gives habitually so cold a reception to the tardy messenger of delight, that, when the bright guest outdares his churlishness and perforce tarries with him, there ensues a passionate revulsion unknown to hearts which open readily to every fluttering illusive bliss. The Unclassed
First, I want to dissociate myself from what I thought were some slightly churlish comments made by a member whose words I usually listen to extremely closely.
But when what distinguishes the hero from the churl is the choice of obedience or disobedience, then it is open to anyone at any time to become either. Intimate Journals
It seems churlish to criticise this, but it can hardly be considered best. Times, Sunday Times
I ejaculated mentally , " you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.
Still, it would be churlish to complain. Times, Sunday Times
Only a churl would refuse to acknowledge the president's success in crafting national unity out of catastrophe, and even liberals have been obliged to pay tribute.
The stage is bare and empty, it looks like a typical display of Volksbühne churlishness, ingeniousness and fractiousness.
The vile person shall be no more called liberal , nor the churl said to be bountiful.
If somebody wishes to indulge in a bit of figging but then muses publically on what on earth the origins of the word might be, it would be churlish of me not to enlighten them. The Big Philosophical Question
Still, having waited many years to be a success, he knows it would be churlish to complain. Times, Sunday Times
Ceorle (whence our word churl) was a countryman or artisan who was a freeman. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
That which St. Austin said of himself here in this place, I may truly say to thee, thou discontented wretch, thou covetous niggard, thou churl, thou ambitious and swelling toad, 'tis not want but peevishness which is the cause of thy woes; settle thine affection, thou hast enough. Anatomy of Melancholy
I hated him before, but now the miserable churl only has my most profound pity!
Still, having waited many years to be a success, he knows it would be churlish to complain. Times, Sunday Times
He regularly behaves like a churl with the media and elicits mixed feelings inside his own clubhouse.
Churl I'll drop the love - juice in your eyes. Hey !
-- This is indeed a weakness; but it is a weakness of nature, and which neither religion nor philosophy are sufficient to arm us against; and the very endeavours we make to banish, or at least to conceal our disquiets on this score, occasion a certain peevishness in the sweetest temper, and make us behave with a kind of churlishness, even to those most dear to us. Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
Be as churlish as you list -- I never quarrel with my customers -- my jerry come tumbles, my merry dancers, my little playfellows, as Jacques Butcher says to his lambs -- those in fine, who, like your seigniorship, have H.E. M.P. written on their foreheads. Quentin Durward
They invited me to dinner and I thought it would be churlish to refuse.
Undoubtedly, if you're feeling churlish. Times, Sunday Times
Once you turn 30, if you chase someone to repay the tenner you lent them, you look mean-spirited and churlish.
The next flaw feels churlish to mention, but it is important. Times, Sunday Times
The vile person shall be no more called liberal , nor the churl said to be bountiful.
Only the churlish would point out it was about 33,000 more than their normal crowd. Times, Sunday Times
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, the seasons 'difference, as the icy fang and churlish chiding of the winter's wind, which, when it bites and blows upon my body, even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say this is no flattery: these are counsellors that feelingly persuade me what I am. Whatever the Fuck You Want
The nation's professional churl had finally been forced to button his lip.
It would be churlish, of course, to point out that the school is closed and young marrieds will never be able to live in the village, so we may never hear children playing in the dale again.
I feel a little churlish raising this because they were certainly an enjoyable pair to watch and undoubtedly gave everything to achieve really bravura performances.
And none of the priests actually seems to be a dirty rotten scoundrel - most of them seem to be more bumpkinish rather than churlish.
This remark would inevitably have been construed into another instance of that churlishness which is so often said (though quite erroneously) to have been one of Tennyson’s infirmities. Old Familiar Faces
I ejaculated mentally , " you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.
Undoubtedly, if you're feeling churlish. Times, Sunday Times
Back at Balbirnie, it seemed churlish to forego afternoon tea.
It'seems churlish to refuse such a generous offer.
If I may, Lord, who is the churl you drag with you?
She wanted to do it and it would have been very churlish to say no. Times, Sunday Times
Since he has generously provided a reply-paid envelope it seemed churlish not to complete it.
Thanks to our efforts, wild animals now have more space to roam You have to ask yourself what kind of churlishness would say that is a bad thing. ANC Daily News Briefing
Works so hard that it always seems a little churlish to criticise. Times, Sunday Times
We would prefer that the kill had been achieved without putting British lives at risk in antiquated aircraft, but now is not the time to be churlish. Me like...
My mother looks at Dad and raises her eyebrows at my infinite churlishness.
It would be churlish to refuse such a generous offer.
It'seems churlish to refuse such a generous offer.
It would have been more than churlish to complain - besides, it gives us a great excuse to return. Times, Sunday Times
Confederacy, and he would have been supported by earnest and enduring enthusiasm, instead of by that churlish sufferance which is the result of Coningsby
Every year, it churns out yet another batch of churlish, abrupt or simply stupid workers who take a giant leap and land directly behind a counter or bar at a service area near you.
It would be churlish to refuse you.
The first, the retort courteous; the second, the quip modest; the third, the reply churlish; the fourth, the reproof valiant; the fifth, the countercheck quarrelsome; the sixth, the lie with circumstance; the seventh, the lie direct. Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It
Dalglish, throughout, behaved admirably and only churls later questioned his decision to quit Anfield.
It just seems churlish for a writer to refuse to have their music used on an advert.
‘Only a churl would deny anyone the consolation of hope,’ writes Philip Kennicott in The Washington Post.
It'seems churlish to refuse such a generous offer.
Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of Ulysses
The room was so lovely it seemed churlish to argue.
Gregory for Marcus on Podex by Daddy de Wyer, old baga-broth, beeves and scullogues, churls and vassals, in same, sept and severalty and one by one and sing a mamalujo. Finnegans Wake
Now that I've had time to think about it, I feel pretty churlish about my reaction to Gale's happy news.
We have churlishness, we have brutality, we have rape. Sam-Who-Likes-Nothing - The Stars My Destination at SF Novelists
The instruments of the churl are and always will be evil, but the liberal deviseth liberal things, Isa. xxxii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
You have to ask yourself what kind of churlishness would say that is a bad thing. ANC Daily News Briefing
The room was so lovely it seemed churlish to argue.
the store owner treated his customers churlishly
Still, it would be churlish to complain. Times, Sunday Times
It'seemed churlish to refuse his invitation.
With respect to men in other stations of life he is pleased to say, it is decent for a priest "to be sober and sad;" "a judge to be incorrupted, solitary, and unacquainted with courtiers or courtly entertainments ... without plait or wrinkle, sour in look and churlish in speech; contrariwise a courtly gentleman to be lofty and curious in countenance, yet sometimes a creeper and a curry favell with his superiors. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
It's a timeless display of good-time rock 'n' roll, and you'd have to be a churlish misery guts to claim otherwise.
General Savage, an elderly gourmet, a ventripotent Apicins, an epicurian Heliogabalus, very cynical, and awfully churlish, thought that the pill, despite of its gilding, was too bitter to swallow
churlish as a bear
It is a record only the most churlish, or those with almost impossibly high expectations, could deem anything less than laudable.
The good yeomen and thespians who put on the River City Shakespeare Festival are in need of a few knaves, churls, gentlemen and gentlewomen to volunteer as well.
Only the churlish or cloth-eared could deny this music's uplifting qualities.
Given many people's trauma, it would be churlish to complain. Times, Sunday Times
He felt a longing for the extraordinary, for the original, for the adventuresomeness of artistic youth; and political master of a county, heir of a feudal dominion virtually, he nevertheless would read the name of any writer or painter whatsoever with the superstitious respect of a rustic churl. The Torrent Entre Naranjos
This dispelled my churlishness and the rest of the route through the grounds and lovely farmland was much enjoyed.
Of course, it would be churlish not to marvel at the fantastic performance of Tiger Woods.
But it would be somewhat churlish to focus too directly on the failures of the season.
Only the churlish would point out it was about 33,000 more than their normal crowd. Times, Sunday Times
She offered them cups of tea and it seemed churlish to refuse.
When we told him there wasn't a trace of Tracey our cabby was being a touch churlish, as Ms. Emin is a native who really put Margate on the map, or of Mr. Hirst in the opening exhibition, he expressed surprise—and a little contrarian pleasure. An Eruption in Margate
It'seemed churlish to refuse his invitation.
He seems to delight in being a churl, but his disrespectful comments about Babe Ruth demonstrated his ignorance of baseball history.
It also happened that Poulenc turned out one of the greatest melodists of all time, and it seems churlish to complain when he keeps hitting you with ‘A’ material.
It would be churlish to refuse such a generous offer.
Ambrose finished the narrative with a broken voice indeed, but as one who had more self-command than his brother, perhaps than his uncle, whose exclamations became bitter and angry as he heard of the treatment the boys had experienced from their half-brother, who, as he said, he had always known as a currish mean-spirited churl, but scarce such as this. The Armourer's Prentices
But it would be churlish to be too critical following a good day's work.
The parents of these churlish, raffish youths should be held responsible.
If he did, he would know that the word churl OE. ceorl m. is historically, and currently, loaded with class distinction. Archive 2006-01-01
The suitors, for good measure, also violate the code associated with feasting in other ways - by mistreating the servants in Odysseus's palace, and by their churlish treatment of Odysseus in disguise as a suppliant beggar.
The next flaw feels churlish to mention, but it is important. Times, Sunday Times
As soon as we are persuaded that we are lucky to be alive, the thought of complaining about quality of life becomes churlish, ungrateful.
If I have any churlish feelings at all about this new production, it is a sense of envy: it doesn't seem fair for them to be paid to have so much fun.
It seemed equally churlish to point out that all good things come to an end. Times, Sunday Times
Preacher by his life to giue good example, a Iudge to be incorrupted, solitarie and vnacqainted with Courtiers or Courtly entertainements, & as the Philosopher saith _Oportet iudicem esse rudem & simplicem_, without plaite or wrinkle, sower in looke and churlish in speach, contrariwise a The Arte of English Poesie
I guess one should not be churlish about soft journalism; it does its bit to spread happiness and light.
It would be churlish to criticise. The Sun
Given many people's trauma, it would be churlish to complain. Times, Sunday Times

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