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Significados de prickliness en inglés

The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines.

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Examples for "thorniness"
Examples for "thorniness"
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In their thorniness, however, there is no malice, only some malic acid.
Wild Apples
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She was right about the thorniness of the situation, Rozsak reflected.
Torch of Freedom
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The most characteristic feature of the jungle was its thorniness.
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
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It was a rank wild growth, with many green leaves on it still, and made an impression of thorniness.
Wild Apples
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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
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Once, in weightlessness training, she had brushed against his hair and had been surprised by its boarlike bristliness.
Gravity
Uso de prickliness en inglés
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Was it truly no more than pettiness and childish prickliness, as Kilmandaros suggests?
Return of the Crimson Guard
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I lie there pondering his fiscal prickliness, wholly mysterious to me.
Lit: a memoir
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Finally there was a hint of the prickliness the thistle is supposed to represent.
The Guardian
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What others-particularlysome American hackers-viewedas prickliness, Pad saw as the perfect sense of humour.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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Yet what had waved off her could very well be the cause of all that prickliness.
Mad enough to marry
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How about Harlan Ellison's famous... er... prickliness?
Wired
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Photograph: Renaissance Films Perhaps the prickliness around the question of violence comes from what the show is trying to evolve into.
The Guardian
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He let his eyelids drop: but the occasion for showing the prickliness of the bristly social English, could not be resisted.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3
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Cumberbatch makes a charismatic Doctor Strange, even if he hasn't quite nailed the prickliness of the comic book character nor an American accent.
News.com.au
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Then she went into the parlour and dropped into a horsehair armchair, and leaning her head against its prickliness she sighed a doleful sigh.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
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Initially her prickliness, her willingness to be indifferent to conventional manners, misled him, but after the first week, he began to see these other qualities.
The hellfire club
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'I know the prickliness of our good friend there!
Elizabeth's Campaign
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Was it truly no more than pettiness and childish prickliness, as Kilmandaros suggests?
Return of the Crimson Guard
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I lie there pondering his fiscal prickliness, wholly mysterious to me.
Lit: a memoir
15
Finally there was a hint of the prickliness the thistle is supposed to represent.
The Guardian
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What others-particularlysome American hackers-viewedas prickliness, Pad saw as the perfect sense of humour.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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