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Usage

• churlish

  Someone who is churlish is impolite and unfriendly, especially towards another who has done nothing to deserve ill-treatment.

• mawkish

  Something is mawkish when it is overly sentimental and silly in an embarrassing way.

• brackish

  Something brackish is distasteful and unpleasant usually because something else is mixed in with it; brackish water, for instance, is a mixture of fresh and salt water and cannot be drunk.

• peckish

  If you are feeling peckish, you are feeling irritable or quick to snap at people; this might be because you're hungry.