woolly
adjective
consisting of wool.
woolliness
-
a word derived from
woolly.
Example Sentences
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Yet he shears away the woolliness of twentieth-century welfare capitalism.
From Nature ● Oct. 13, 2019
It would be proof positive of the woolliness of the West.
From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson
As the parts mature, the woolliness usually disappears, except along the midrib and principal veins, which become almost glabrous.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
It now indicates, generally speaking, an intellectual defect which expresses itself in a literary quality one can only call woolliness.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West
The leaves are furrowed along the course of the veins, and convex between them, slightly downy and of a greyish green on the upper side; clothed with snowy woolliness beneath.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
