woolliness

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Yet he shears away the woolliness of twentieth-century welfare capitalism.

From Nature • Oct. 13, 2019

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 Kingsley, Mary H.

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 Linn?, Carl von

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

The natural woolliness of Mr. Hearty's voice was emphasised by the dejection of disappointment; but his eyes told of the relief he felt that Alice was no longer to be the topic of conversation.

From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Jenkins, Hebert