Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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Examples for "waspish "
Examples for "waspish "
1 I should point out that Liew is a waspish but well-liked journalist.
2 She bit down a waspish response to the intrusion and looked up.
3 If so, will have the same elegantly waspish concern for standards?
4 Even she was waspish , fed up with the pettiness they were all displaying.
5 Beyond the window, Didi could hear the high waspish whine of the freezing wind.
1 To scorn and revile wealth is the mere resource of splenetic poverty.
2 That he was occasionally splenetic in his disposition is very manifest.
3 He walked about and ejaculated splenetic phrases on the subject of his ill-luck.
4 Sharp and Rogers both speak of him as an unpleasant, affected, splenetic person.
5 For those are my sentiments in that splenetic humour, which governs me at present.
1 The bristly ridge of its chine showed black against the red west.
2 His long arms almost strangled me; his bristly mustache scratched my cheek.
3 They were still comically stiff-legged and bristly as they aloofly sniffed noses.
4 His pocked cheeks and bristly dome would enhance his gaunt, sinister mien.
5 Lou's thin face reddened up to the roots of his bristly hair.
6 Then I notice bristly hairs on my fingers that weren't there before.
7 Gilhaelith strode out, the mustard-coloured, mustard-stained robes flapping about his bristly shanks.
8 Clean-shaven, he had bristly dark hair that lay close to his scalp.
9 He reached out and ran one hand across its bristly surface.
10 Some found him too bristly but I liked him, Surratt said.
11 Cayrol was confused; he twisted his bristly beard with his fingers.
12 He put the envelope to his bristly lips and kissed it.
13 Watching her, Tristan's father ran his hand over his bristly jaw.
14 They were all legs and teeth and bristly fur, the meat almost inedible.
15 Whereas the tapir has a hog-like skin, the ant-bear has long, bristly hairs.
16 Allie collected ash in her long eyelashes and eyebrows and short, bristly hair.
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