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Meanings of brickly in English

Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped.

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Examples for "brittle"
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Excessive use of cannabis can lead to brittle bones, new research suggests.
The Guardian
2
Several minutes more in the chill harbor would have frozen him brittle.
Winter’s Tale
3
It is thereby hardened; rendered, in fact, almost as brittle as glass.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
4
The midget said something biting in his peculiarly cracked and brittle voice.
Space Platform
5
Just thinking about it made my bones brittle and my spirit fragile.
Climbing Magazine
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One night I came home from work with a quart of butter brickle ice cream and a rented video and found her.
On mystic lake
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Onward to somewhere; along Bayfront Drive, over to Brickle, and into downtown.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
3
A clothier in Brickle Lane.
Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
Usage of brickly in English
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Has Captain Brickly telephoned?
The Pretty Lady