churlishness

As if called by name, two Republican candidates for his job spoke up with predictable churlishness.

The churlishness of last year's electorate has also made the freshmen nervous about settling in.

Somehow green seems more appropriate for churlishness, doesn't it?

The age of churlishness, it seems, is over.

Actually, she had no memory of him at all, but he appeared eager to please, and somewhat embarrassed by his friend's churlishness.

I am most grateful, in spite of my churlishness."

I was trying to keep my temper because, in addition to his churlishness, he had the front seat and the lion's share of the heater.

His face had settled into a fixed churlishness.

He was aware of the churlishness of his reply.

I said all the right things, and by the time I hung up my churlishness was already fading to some extent.

Dunbar is blind, but in a previous generation, he could have been black or female and encountered a similar kind of churlishness.

A kind of diplomatic churlishness may be the only course for the leaders jostling for power and position.

But there is churlishness all the same.

Your churlishness is a bit of a downer.

A new spirit of churlishness has invaded the region's legislatures, executive mansions, and local governments.

His churlishness isn't compelling, it's just an embarrassment, a callow cry for attention.

Those who witnessed his behaviour at close quarters are convinced that there was also an element of churlishness.

Booing him, or any other cricketer in those circumstances would have been the height of churlishness.

I've had about all I can stand of your churlishness and your refusal to accept yourself, let alone those around you."

Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishness or indifference.

Under these circumstances a saint would struggle, so give him a fair hearing instead of the churlishness shown by several Guardian writers.

Arkansans caution that he is capable of churlishness.

Ideals, the promised revolutions of '68, had lapsed into churlishness.

"What churlishness is this," Gwen cried, "that armed men pursue a woman shorn of defense?"

Irritability, sullenness and churlishness are examples of the last form of anger.