churlishnessn.
/ˈtʃəːlɪʃnɪs/ Churlish quality or state; rudeness, roughness, sullenness, harshness, niggardliness.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > surliness
churlnessa1500
churlishness1528
carlishness1552
surliness1587
insuavity1624
gruffness1691
chuffiness1731
bearishness1740
beardom1840
gruffiness1865
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun]
fastship?c1225
scarcenessa1300
scarcity1340
niggardyc1390
nithingheada1400
scarcehead1420
nigonryc1430
niggardship?a1439
pinching1440
straitheadc1450
straitnessc1460
niggard cheap1463
niggardnessc1487
nigonshipa1500
niggardise1502
niggishness1519
niggardliness1556
parsimony1561
illiberality1581
nearness1584
tenacity1586
Euclionism1599
paring1607
servilitya1610
niggeralitya1612
scanting1625
scant-handednessa1627
closefistedness1631
niggardess1632
close-handedness1646
strait-handedness1649
penury1651
unbountifulness1660
parsimoniousness1671
penuriousness1672
stinginess1682
closeness1712
illiberalness1727
meanness1755
cheeseparing1834
scrimping1835
churlishness1846
screwing1848
skinflintism1853
screwiness1856
flint-paring1860
skinflintiness1861
scrimp1864
flint-skinning1873
penny-pinching1895
skimping1898
tight-fistedness1975
1528 W. Tyndale Parable Wicked Mammon in Wks. I. 117 The cruelness and churlishness of father and mother.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 226 Some..geue nothing but either with pride of looke, or with chorlishnesse of wordes they vpbraide it.
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 49 The churlishness of a Nabal makes men they cannot speak to him.
1846 T. De Quincey On Christianity in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 218/1 What churlishness, if you should grudge to others a health which does not interfere with your own!
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