0 rude, unfriendly, and unpleasant: --
1 rude, unfriendly, and unpleasant: --
[ + to infinitive ] They invited me to dinner and I thought it would be churlish to refuse.
However, to overstate such criticisms would be churlish.
It would, however, be churlish, to dwell on these minor faults.
There are some errors and omissions although it would be churlish of me to list them here.
However, since this represents 10 million words, it would be churlish to emphasize this point.
The depressed state of the agrarian economy, however, made politicians churlish of adding further to the fencing burden of their constituents.
In a way, it may seem churlish to criticize the volume's lack of comprehensiveness when so many of the chapters are impressively scholarly.
It seems churlish to complain of lacunae or infelicities in a book that contains so much.
It would be churlish to pick fault at these levels.
