All churlishness synonyms

noun churlishness

• speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
• animosity — Animosity is a strong feeling of dislike and anger. Animosities are feelings of this kind.
• belligerence — the act or quality of being belligerent or warlike; aggressiveness
• bitterness — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
• ill will — hostile feeling; malevolence; enmity: to harbor ill will against someone.
• rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
• rancor — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
• acerbity — Acerbity is a kind of bitter, critical humour.
• antipathy — Antipathy is a strong feeling of dislike or hostility towards someone or something.
• asperity — If you say something with asperity, you say it impatiently and severely.
• astringency — An astringent taste.
• crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
• harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
• irascibility — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
• malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
• malice — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
• peevishness — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
• rudeness — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
• sarcasm — harsh or bitter derision or irony.
• spite — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
• tartness — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
• unkindness — lacking in kindness or mercy; severe.
• virulence — quality of being virulent.
• mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
• acrimony — Acrimony is bitter and angry words or quarrels.
• crabbiness — the state of being crabby
• crossness — the quality or state of being cross or angry; irritability; snappishness.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
• irritability — the quality or state of being irritable.
• meanness — the state or quality of being mean.
• moroseness — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
• roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
• sharpness — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
• sourness — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
• sullenness — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
• avarice — Avarice is extremely strong desire for money and possessions.
• greed — excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
• abjection — an abject state or condition
• baseness — morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly.
• beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
• closeness — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
• corruptness — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
• covetousness — inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy.
• debasement — Debasement is the action of reducing the value or quality of something.
• degeneracy — If you refer to the behaviour of a group of people as degeneracy, you mean that you think it is shocking, immoral, or disgusting.
• degradation — You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
• disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
• frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
• infamy — extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act: a time that will live in infamy.