His gentle reply made Whitney feel churlish and rude.

Since it made him feel churlish to find it so, he got himself a beer and took it into the parlor.

I always felt a little churlish about this, as if I had abandoned a dear relative who had helped me get started in the business.

Drusus had not wanted to let his ring go, but felt churlish, and in the end handed it over.

So much energy goes into all this niceness that quibbling about the food feels churlish.

Billy was apparently feeling churlish now that he'd opened up.

Although it would be natural for Mr. Bush to feel churlish.

It felt churlish to tell him that I was in a hurry, that the coffee would have to be quick.

He smiled at her so gently that she felt churlish for having snapped at him.

It feels churlish to speak even that critically of a woman whose music is so palpably pleasing.