churlish
121quick-tempered — /kwik tem peuhrd/, adj. easily angered. [1820 30] Syn. quarrelsome, testy, churlish, irascible. * * * …
122rough — roughly, adv. roughness, n. /ruf/, adj., rougher, roughest, n., adv., v. adj. 1. having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road. 2. shaggy or coarse: a dog with a… …
123sulky — sulkily, adv. sulkiness, n. /sul kee/, adj., sulkier, sulkiest, n., pl. sulkies. adj. 1. marked by or given to sulking; sullen. 2. gloomy or dull: sulky weather. n. 3. a light, two wheeled, one horse carriage for one person. [1735 45; akin to OE… …
124Brecht, Bertolt — orig. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht born Feb. 10, 1898, Augsburg, Ger. died Aug. 14, 1956, East Berlin, E.Ger. German playwright and poet. He studied medicine at Munich (1917–21) before writing his first plays, including Baal (1922). Other… …
125Timon of Athens — ▪ work by Shakespeare tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare, William), probably written sometime in 1605–08 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an authorial manuscript, probably unfinished. Some parts of the… …
126churlishness — noun the state of being churlish …
127unchurlish — adjective Not churlish …
128curmudgeonly — adjective Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish …
