Example sentences for: churlish

How can you use “churlish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It concluded, "When the alternative is the unthinkable, it is churlish to quibble over dates, venues and terms of reference."

  • Is it churlish to rebuff praise?

  • Kasparov made us all look churlish, bratty, and just plain bad.

  • Today once again everything in the paper seems like an artifact from my boyhood: Victor Borge getting the Kennedy Center national-cultural-treasure award (I know it's churlish to begrudge a 90-year-old man his prize ... but Victor Borge?), the putative excitement over IMAX movies (it's Cinerama circa 1959 all over again), ur-suburboid Procter & Gamble products in the news (Cheer, Crest, Ivory, Tide, Jif), Keith Richards and Eric Clapton and Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde performing en masse on tour.

  • But the fact that McCain's integrity has been called into question made his aspersions against Bush's honesty look churlish.


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