- ill natured - Ill-bred - Rude or surly - Rude, surly - Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly;
illiberal; niggardly. - Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily
wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of
some minerals.