churlishness

noun

Roget 895: discourtesy; ill breeding; ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners; insuavity^†; uncourteousness^†, etc. adj.; rusticity, inurbanity^†; illiberality, incivility displacency^†.    disrespect etc. 929; procacity^†, impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism^†, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_e, brusquerie^†; vulgarity, etc. 851.    churlishness etc. adj.; spinosity^†, perversity; moroseness etc. (sullenness) 901.1. sternness etc. adj.; austerity; moodishness^†, captiousness etc. 901; cynicism; tartness etc. adj.; acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity.    scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality.    bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub^†; frump, crosspatch^†; saucebox etc. 887^†; crooked stick; grizzly.    ... show more

Roget 907: malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness^†; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity etc. 889; hate etc. 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense^†; maliciousness etc. adj.; spite, despite; resentment etc. 900.    uncharitableness etc. adj.; incompassionateness etc. 914.1^†; gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity^†, acerbity churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895.    hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness etc. adj.; brutality, savagery; ferity^†, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity^†, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection.    ill turn, bad turn; affront etc. (disrespect) 929; outrage, atrocity; ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies [Iron.]; unkindest cut of all" [Julius Caesar]. ... show more

Roget 901: irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness etc. adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity etc. (contentiousness) 720.    excitability etc. 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable etc. adj.. temper; genus irritabile [Lat.], hot blood.    ill humor etc. (sullenness) 901.1; asperity &c.; churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895.    huff etc. (resentment) 900; a word and a blow.    Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler^†, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater etc. (blusterer) 887; fury etc. (violent person) 173.    ... show more

Roget 901a: sullenness etc. adj.; morosity^†, spleen; churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895; irascibility etc. 901.    moodiness etc. adj.; perversity; obstinacy etc. 606; torvity^†, spinosity^†; crabbedness etc. adj.. ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor; sulks, dudgeon, mumps^†, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie [Fr.], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff etc. (resentment) 900.    ... show more

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