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prickly
/ ˈprɪklɪ /
adjective
- having or covered with prickles
- stinging or tingling
- bad-tempered or irritable
- full of difficulties; knotty
a prickly problem
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Derived Forms
- ˈprickliness, noun
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Other Words From
- prickli·ness noun
- un·prickly adjective
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Example Sentences
She used electrolysis to banish the prickly hair from her delicate face.
Much of the explanation is personal—the reserved, sometimes prickly politico has never been well-liked.
I missed Don's chiseled mug and Roger's blithe wisecracks and Peggy's prickly chutzpah.
Children are not idealized: they are resourceful but prickly, cunning but confused.
Music critic and former MTV News anchor Kurt Loder pays tribute to the prickly, brilliant Velvet Underground front man.
With a prickly heat suffusing my whole body and a melting sensation at the collar I struggled through the wretched lyric once.
It bears beautiful yellow blossoms in summer, after which comes the fruit, a prickly pear, not good to eat.
Another kind of cactus has crimson and scarlet blossoms, but no prickly pears.
"That's right, too," agreed Mollie, a prickly sensation of pure fright tickling the roots of her hair.
In a few years the girl he had married would be a plain and prickly little pedant—ill-bred besides—and he knew it.
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