ADJECTIVE (2)

1. rude and boorish;

2. having a bad disposition; surly;
- Example: "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Churlish \Churl"ish\, a.
   1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly;
      illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." --Ld. Burleigh.
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            Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. --Cowper.
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   2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily
      wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable
      nature of some minerals. --Boyle.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

churlish
    adj 1: rude and boorish
    2: having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"-
       Shakespeare

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

89 Moby Thesaurus words for "churlish":
   abrupt, aggressive, bearish, beastly, bitchy, bluff, blunt,
   boorish, brash, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, carlish, cavalier,
   cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, countrified, country-born,
   country-bred, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crude, crusty,
   curt, cussed, disagreeable, discourteous, dour, excitable,
   farmerish, feisty, fractious, from the sticks, gruff, harsh,
   hayseed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, huffish, huffy,
   inurbane, irascible, irritable, loobyish, loutish, lowbred,
   lubberly, lumpen, lumpish, mean, naive, ornery, perverse, raffish,
   rough, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, ruffianly, severe, sharp,
   short, snappish, snippy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly,
   testy, truculent, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated,
   uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unschooled, up-country, waspish,
   yokel, yokelish