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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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The soft-heartedness is positively stifling: what kind of churl could criticise such a show?
I greatly doubt me, sweet lady, that the thieving churl will return the crackers.
He seems to delight in being a churl, but his disrespectful comments about Babe Ruth demonstrated his ignorance of baseball history.
What more could you do, had he bestowed her upon a churl, a losel or a slave?
I hated him before, but now the miserable churl only has my most profound pity!
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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