woolliness

Example Sentences

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

From Nature • Oct. 13, 2019

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

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

From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George

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 would be proof positive of the woolliness of the West.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith