Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
1 However, given the prickly undercurrent, today may not be the best day!
2 Government and business relations between Singapore and Indonesia have historically been prickly .
3 For a similar reason, the actual prickly pears themselves are attractively coloured.
4 Any mention of her former colleagues is bound to make her prickly .
5 My body is mostly numb, but I'm beginning to feel prickly sensations.
6 So tell me how you'd approach it. Okay, I was feeling prickly .
7 Even animals were wary of penetrating the dense morass of prickly bushes.
8 The same treatment may be used in nettle rash or prickly heat.
9 Fish were reduced to stealthy shadows slithering among the prickly coral branches.
10 Preventive measures range from putting lights on timers to planting prickly hedges.
11 I shall miss the prickly cactus and the delicious dry heat, too.
12 Xanthe made her way to a seat next to the prickly Hun.
13 Which is a strange version of a sort of chronic prickly heat.
14 De Gaulle, comrade, is a most antagonistic and prickly sort of person.
15 Here, three rocky outcrops lie among a sea of thick, prickly plants.
16 At the end of the prickly tube stood a small red door.
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