prickly
Example Sentences
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Impressive world building gives a visceral texture to the environment that reflects the prickly emotions by those used, abused and cast off, who then reclaim their power by banding together.
From Salon
The American squatted in the dirt, struggling to free the cantaloupe from its prickly stem, almost toppling over.
From Los Angeles Times
Others put up fences and prickly shrubbery to deter loiterers.
From Los Angeles Times
And now there are circumstances to navigate that are pricklier than the actors’ five o’clock shadows.
From Salon
The second Stanford was a colder, pricklier place that lived inside students’ minds.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
