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churlishness

/chur-lish/US // ˈtʃɜr lɪʃ //UK // (ˈtʃɜːlɪʃ) //

汹涌澎湃,胆怯,胆小鬼,胆小怕事

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : like a churl; boorish; rude: churlish behavior.
    • : of a churl; peasantlike.
    • : stingy; mean.
    • : difficult to work or deal with, as soil.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inmeanness
Synonyms
avarice贪婪,贪欲,贪心,贪污greed贪婪,贪婪的,贪心,贪婪的人malice恶意,恶感,恶性,恶习abjection抛弃,弃婴,弃绝,弃权baseness基本面,基本原则,基本原理,基本的beastliness兽性,兽性十足,兽化,野性closeness亲密性,亲密程度,亲密,亲近corruptness腐败现象,腐败行为,腐败,腐败问题covetousness贪婪,贪心,贪欲,贪婪之心debasement贬低,贬损,堕落,贬值degeneracy退化,退化性,堕落,变质degradation退化,降解,降级,降落disrepute不名誉,声名狼藉,不光彩的事,不光彩的事情frugality节俭,节俭性,节约,俭朴infamy臭名昭著,恶名昭彰,声名狼藉,恶名iniquity不义之财,邪恶,邪恶之处,恶行lowness低度,低位,低水平,低级malignity恶性,恶性事件,弊端,恶性肿瘤miserliness吝啬,守财奴,吝啬鬼,吝啬症parsimony解析,赡养费,旁证,吝啬鬼pettiness娇气,小气,娇弱,琐事rapacity肆意妄为,贪婪,肆意挥霍,暴利shamelessness无耻,无耻之徒,厚颜无耻,无耻行为sordidness龌龊,污秽,龌龊不堪,肮脏的东西stinginess吝啬,小气,吝啬鬼,吝啬症unkindness无情,不仁不义,不友善,不仁unscrupulousness不良行为,不择手段,不廉洁,不良现象unworthiness不值得,不称职,不值,不值得拥有wickedness邪恶,恶人,邪恶的人,邪恶的contemptibleness蔑视性,鄙视,蔑视,鄙视性ill-temper脾气不好,脾气暴躁,脾气不好的人,脾气不好的knavishness骑士精神,骑士风范,骑士风度,小结smallmindedness小心思,心胸狭隘,心胸狭小,小肚鸡肠
as inacrimony

Examples

  • And yet, by the end of the night, it felt churlish to complain.

  • Christmas is a season of marvelous and mystical experiences, and maybe it seems churlish to let science and history intrude.

  • For the moment it seems churlish to knock an innocuous little history for its essential brevity and its inevitable lacunae.

  • My friends all seemed to drool over churlish boy-band types.

  • His churlish attack created a media storm that the Republican Party got dragged into and which has hurt the image of the party.

  • With a churlish gesture the old man pushed the bread over toward her and with hesitating, trembling fingers she reached for it.

  • The lover has no share in this churlish anger: his heart is not capable of offending you.

  • It seemed churlish, too, not to join in the chorus; and by and by the whole meeting was singing with a will.

  • He was stirred to stinging invective of the churlish priest of Saint-Sulpice, who denied her church-burial.

  • A finer weapon wherewith to strike at a churlish world was never given into the hands of man.