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Example sentences for: churlish
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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?
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.
And in churlish retrospect, I began to wonder how much we really needed to be told that Clare's first pet was a fluffy chick named Pip that lived "only a short time."