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
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
As it is, a white sheet - or more properly speaking, considering its soft, stuffy woolliness, a white blanket - is stretched across the landscape to the south-west, where the sea would show.
From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley
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
This 'ere's a bad cove as is takin' adwantage o' your woolliness.
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by George MacDonald
