churlish
CHUR-lishadjMeaning rude and mean-spirited; ungracious
Memory hook CHURL rhymes with HURL. Ivy gives Uncle Marcus a scarf she knitted herself, and he hurls it back with a grunt: “Itchy.” Hurling back a kind gift is churlish.
It would be churlish to refuse a gift from a friend who saved for months to buy it.
In context After the neighbors spent all day fixing his fence, it was churlish of him to complain that they had painted it the wrong shade of white.
Similar ungracious, rude, surly, mean
Opposite gracious, courteous, polite