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Insubordinate vs Churlish - What's the difference?

insubordinate | churlish |

As adjectives the difference between insubordinate and churlish

is that insubordinate is rebellious or defiant to authority while churlish is of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic.

insubordinate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • rebellious or defiant to authority
  • contumacious
    • ----

    churlish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic
  • * 1996 , Jeet Heer, Gravitas , Autumn 1996
    • [...] the eloquence and truth of his tribute stands in marked contrast to Kramer's churlish caricature of Kael as a happy pig wallowing in the dirt.
  • rude, surly, ungracious
  • stingy or grudging
  • (of soil) difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable
  • *1730–1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
  • *:Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread,t
  • *:And force a churlish soil for scanty bread.

    • Synonyms

    * (of or pertaining to a serf) rustic * (rude or surly) cross-grained, rude, surly, ungracious * (stingy or grudging) grudging, illiberal, miserly, niggardly, stingy

    Related terms

    * churl * churldom * churled * churlhood * churlishly * churlishness