churlish (adj.)
- abrupt
- aggressive
- bearish
- beastly
- bitchy
- bluff
- blunt
- boorish
- brash
- brusque
- cantankerous
- cavalier
- cloddish
- clownish
- coarse
- countrified
- country-bred
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- cross-grained
- crude
- crusty
- curt
- cussed
- disagreeable
- discourteous
- dour
- excitable
- feisty
- fractious
- gruff
- harsh
- hick
- hobnailed
- huffish
- huffy
- irascible
- irritable
- loutish
- lowbred
- lubberly
- lumpen
- lumpish
- mean
- naive
- ornery
- perverse
- raffish
- rough
- rowdy
- ruffianly
- severe
- sharp
- short
- snappish
- spiteful
- splenetic
- surly
- testy
- truculent
- ugly
- uncivilized
- uncouth
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unschooled
- waspish
- yokelish
The Retort Courteous; . . . the Quip Modest; . . . the Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; . . . the Lie Direct.
