Churlish1. (a.) Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
2. (a.) Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
Thesaurus Entries
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