Following testimony by Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” Merriam-Webster reported that lookups for churlish spiked by 3,500% on February 27, 2019. Cohen was testifying publicly at a congressional hearing of the House Oversight Committee when he stated that Trump’s behavior was churlish, noting that “it denigrates the office of the president and it’s un-American.”
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