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English to English adjective
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Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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very irritable | | Example: bristly exchanges between the White House and the press
he became prickly and spiteful
witty and waspish about his colleagues
source: wordnet30
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having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | | Example: a horse with a short bristly mane
bristly shrubs
burred fruits
setaceous whiskers
source: wordnet30
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