churlish

adj

1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country-born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube, Sl. hayseed; homespun, homebred, homey, homely, homelike, homish, down-home, (usu. of thought or philosophy) cracker-barrel, Inf. folksy.

2. boorish, loutish, oafish, doltish, cloddish, clod-hopping, lubberly, loobyish, clownish, lumpish, lumpen; crude, crass, brutish, barbaric, beastly, bestial, swinish, reptilian, contemptible, base, vile; rude, vulgar, uncouth, coarse, ill-bred, ill-mannered, unmannerly; arrogant, audacious, impudent, insolent, brash, brazen, bold, presumptuous, impertinent.

3. surly, cantankerous, irascible, crabbed, iracund, obnoxious, choleric, brusque, crusty, grumpy, peppery, grouchy, dyspeptic, thorny, bearish, snappish, waspish, snarling, growling, bristling; cross, feisty, huffy, huffish, irritable, peevish, cranky, bilious, testy, touchy, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, short-tempered; fractious, quarrelsome, caviling, disagreeable, Inf. ornery, Inf. bitchy, Inf. ugly; caustic, mordant, mor-dacious, biting, cutting, stinging, sarcastic, insulting; sharp, uncivil, rough, harsh; abrupt, curt, short, terse, blunt.

4. miserly, niggardly, penurious, parsimonious, chary, usurious, Obs. usurous, tight, tight-fisted, close, close-fisted, close-handed, Inf. stingy, Inf. cheap, narrow, illiberal, grudging, scrimping, pinching; beggarly, meager, paltry, shabby, Sl. two-bit, Sl. lousy, Sl. rotten; sordid, avaricious, greedy, rapacious, extortionate; covetous, venal, mercenary, grasping.

5. obstinate, stubborn, pertinacious, dogged; implacable, intractable, obdurate, resistant, defiant, unyielding, unbending, pig-headed, bullheaded, thick, mulish, hard-set, stiff-necked, stiff, rigid, hidebound, hardbitten, stony; perverse, contrary, contumacious, untoward, balky, froward, willful, self-willed, cross-grained; rebellious, insubordinate, unruly, disobedient, fractious, refractory, incorrigible, ungovernable, unmanageable.