churlishly

1. 1.

   in a churlish manner

   “the store owner treated his customers churlishly”

   Synonymssurlily

Questions about churlishly

What does churlishly mean?

churlishly means "in a churlish manner".

How many syllables are in churlishly?

churlishly has 3 syllables and divides as chur-lish-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for churlishly?

Close synonyms include surlily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is churlishly a common word?

churlishly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.