churlish

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic.

   “[…] the eloquence and truth of his tribute stands in marked contrast to Kramer's churlish caricature of Kael as a happy pig wallowing in the dirt.”

2. sıfat Rude, surly, ungracious.

   “[A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]”

3. sıfat Stingy or grudging.
4. sıfat Difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable.

   “1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread.”