0 in a way that is rude, unfriendly, and unpleasant:
He was churlishly rejected.
"I don't like it," she said churlishly.
The authorities have been behaving churlishly but the citizens have proved admirably level-headed.
She lashed out churlishly at a photographer.
I rather churlishly bridled at the suggestion that the town is more famous than me.
