spiky
adjective
spikily
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a word derived from
spiky.
Example Sentences
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Music-filled and spikily edited, “Kneecap” finds rude wit and edge to underscore its needle-drop righteousness; that it sustains its level so exuberantly is remarkable, especially considering how hit-and-miss these self-mythologizing projects often are.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
Mr Miles later managed to type the words "I congratulate Vaughan" on social media, but rather spikily in the same post observed that in politics "trust must be continually earned".
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2024
Gallery in Melbourne until May 27, explores that question through the work of Australian designers of the 1980s, including Aslanis and Cozzolino, across Day-Glo protest posters, koala-patterned suits and spikily postmodern club furniture.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
Colman is shattering as Leda, who is spikily self-protective and deeply vulnerable: A scene in which she refuses to cede her space on the beach to Nina’s family is a chamber piece of passive-aggressive subtext.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2021
He curled spikily around her neck and they towed the wagon across the grassland, up to the tangled vines and ferns of the rain forest.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
