adjective. Snarling and bad-tempered.

Like a cur; having the qualities of a cur; snappish; snarling; churlish; quarrelsome.

adjective. Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.

adjective. Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.

adjective. ignoble, mean-spirited.

adjective. base and cowardly

adjective. resembling a cur; snarling and rude

"Ambrose finished the narrative with a broken voice indeed, but as one who had more self-command than his brother, perhaps than his uncle, whose exclamations became bitter and angry as he heard of the treatment the boys had experienced from their half-brother, who, as he said, he had always known as a currish mean-spirited churl, but scarce such as this."

ignoble  ill-natured  

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