churlish

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English churlysshe, cherlissh, from late Old English ċeorlisċ, ċierlisċ (“of or pertaining to churls”), equivalent to churl + -ish.

Is the churlish knight conquered? — Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race, M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt
=arisco, -a=, wild, churlish, intractable. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

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