A rough and bitter manner.
The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines.
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Examples for "prickliness "
Examples for "prickliness "
1 Was it truly no more than pettiness and childish prickliness , as Kilmandaros suggests?
2 I lie there pondering his fiscal prickliness , wholly mysterious to me.
3 Finally there was a hint of the prickliness the thistle is supposed to represent.
4 What others-particularlysome American hackers-viewedas prickliness , Pad saw as the perfect sense of humour.
5 Yet what had waved off her could very well be the cause of all that prickliness .
1 For the vegetation of Lower California makes up in bristliness what it lacks in luxuriance.
2 Once, in weightlessness training, she had brushed against his hair and had been surprised by its boarlike bristliness .
1 In their thorniness , however, there is no malice, only some malic acid.
2 She was right about the thorniness of the situation, Rozsak reflected.
3 The most characteristic feature of the jungle was its thorniness .
4 It was a rank wild growth, with many green leaves on it still, and made an impression of thorniness .
5 Cunning little thing, for all her thorniness and her sharpness with him, which he now saw that he had deserved....
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