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What is a churl?

What is a churl? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a free peasant (as opposed to a serf).
  2. A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
  3. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
  4. (Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall
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A man is a churl who enforces laws, when he himself has not the strength to observe them.
The soft-heartedness is positively stifling: what kind of churl could criticise such a show?
He seems to delight in being a churl, but his disrespectful comments about Babe Ruth demonstrated his ignorance of baseball history.
I jarred him awake and made my apologies to her before dragging the very intoxicated churl into his room.
When a few words will rescue misery out of her distress, I hate the man who can be a churl of them.
She proudly talked of herself as the one who set the bones in his nose, and said she had been waiting to see what churl hurt him without reason.

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