woolliness

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 Nicholson, Meredith

This 'ere's a bad cove as is takin' adwantage o' your woolliness.

From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George

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 West, Julius

It was a grey day with a gentle wind, the sky of a teased pearl woolliness with curious warm tints in it here and there.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)