Churlish
Churlish , adjective
1.
Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
Churlish benefits.
Half mankind maintain a churlish strife.
2.
Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. — Boyle