Of or relating to the spleen.
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Examples for "prickly "
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.
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.
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.
6 We eagerly flipped to Andrea to see her splenetic spin but were vastly disappointed.
7 He was a most extraordinary man, very splenetic , and very difficult to deal with.
8 She urges her faith in social regeneration; he vents his splenetic contempt for the mob.
9 Holt showed his tobacco-stained teeth in a grin splenetic .
10 The big hawk-nosed man by his side cackled in his throat with short, splenetic mirth.
11 By garrulity you will offend the splenetic and morose.
12 Whenever someone lets fly with the splenetic outburst of rage, esp(...)
13 No hesitating, morbid view of life, but rank, harsh assertiveness, not untinged with splenetic anger.
14 In the course of time, official labor becomes tiresome, and the India House clerk grows splenetic .
15 The herb is therefore gathered and used as a medicine for the cure of splenetic people.
16 Critic has followed critic in denouncing the book as that of a " splenetic " invalid.
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