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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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I hated him before, but now the miserable churl only has my most profound pity!
I greatly doubt me, sweet lady, that the thieving churl will return the crackers.
When a few words will rescue misery out of her distress, I hate the man who can be a churl of them.
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.
What more could you do, had he bestowed her upon a churl, a losel or a slave?

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