prickly

It’s an account of the work of Griffith Pugh, the prickly scientist who designed the oxygen gear, the acclimatization protocols, the diet, the down clothing, the boots, the tents, the stoves, and even the inflatable beds for the expedition.

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.