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Exercise conscience with academic punishment's sensitivity?
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prickliness
Word definitions for prickliness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prickliness \Prick"li*ness\, n. [From Prickly .] The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being prickly.
Usage examples of prickliness.
He let his eyelids drop: but the occasion for showing the prickliness of the bristly social English, could not be resisted.
Perhaps, he hoped, they were about to enter a land where courtesy was not founded on the prickliness of physical contact.
Her natural music, the vibration she emitted into the air around her, was the one sensation he had found in his lifetime that soothed the angry nerves and exposed veins in his skin, that quieted the natural prickliness of his odd physiology.
Her hands opened over his shirt, feeling muscle and the soft prickliness of hair underneath their cool palms.
Initially her prickliness, her willingness to be indifferent to conventional manners, misled him, but after the first week, he began to see these other qualities.
And he was beginning to think that he wanted her, despite all the strange prickliness of her character.
There was a prickliness on his bare back that was not the drying of sweat.