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Meanings of spininess in anglès

The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines.

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        Examples for "prickliness"
        Examples for "prickliness"
        1
        Was it truly no more than pettiness and childish prickliness, as Kilmandaros suggests?
        Return of the Crimson Guard
        2
        I lie there pondering his fiscal prickliness, wholly mysterious to me.
        Lit: a memoir
        3
        Finally there was a hint of the prickliness the thistle is supposed to represent.
        The Guardian
        4
        What others-particularlysome American hackers-viewedas prickliness, Pad saw as the perfect sense of humour.
        Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
        5
        Yet what had waved off her could very well be the cause of all that prickliness.
        Mad enough to marry
        1
        In their thorniness, however, there is no malice, only some malic acid.
        Wild Apples
        2
        She was right about the thorniness of the situation, Rozsak reflected.
        Torch of Freedom
        3
        The most characteristic feature of the jungle was its thorniness.
        The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
        4
        It was a rank wild growth, with many green leaves on it still, and made an impression of thorniness.
        Wild Apples
        5
        Cunning little thing, for all her thorniness and her sharpness with him, which he now saw that he had deserved....
        Murder at Bridge
        1
        For the vegetation of Lower California makes up in bristliness what it lacks in luxuriance.
        The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches
        2
        Once, in weightlessness training, she had brushed against his hair and had been surprised by its boarlike bristliness.
        Gravity