Crossword-Solution: PRICKLY 7 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Prickly a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with
prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

We have 20 clues for the answer “PRICKLY”

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__ pear: cactus 1 answer
echinate 2 answers
brambly 2 answers
Like a hedgehog 3 answers
Tingling 3 answers
cultrate 3 answers
ACULEATE 3 answers
Spiny ___ 8 answers
Scratchy 10 answers
A TINGLING FEELING OF EXCITEMENT 10 answers
Thorny 11 answers
Type of Pear 13 answers
Pear 15 answers
Stinging 18 answers
Itchy 23 answers
Barbed 26 answers
in a bad mood 31 answers
Ash 35 answers
Pointed 37 answers
Irritable 82 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PRICKLY (5)

Dimmesdale, in a quiet way, as if he had been discussing the point within himself, “Whether capable of good, I know not.” The child probably overheard their voices, for, looking up to the window with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Rev.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The first (and the worst!) thing that confronted Thea was a suit of clean, prickly red flannel, fresh from the wash.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The picture really doesn't do it justice--those things that look like feather dusters are maple trees, and the prickly ones that border the drive are murmuring pines and hemlocks.
Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 2008
Various kinds of isis, clusters of pure tuft-coral, prickly fungi, and anemones formed a brilliant garden of flowers, enamelled with porphitæ, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea-stars studding the sandy bottom, together with asterophytons like fine lace embroidered by the hands of naïads, whose festoons were waved by the gentle undulations caused by our walk.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed, There but wild oats and barren darnel spring; For tender violet and narcissus bright Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
The Bucolics and Eclogues Virgil 2008

Quotes with PRICKLY (3)

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
Ovid
I don’t understand how I could have believed you were a warm, affectionate, and tenderhearted person! You’re obviously as prickly as a porcupine and any man who comes close to you will end up with a face full of quills!
Colleen Houck
A muffled voice startled them both. her?" They pulled away. In the ballroom windows, noses and hands pressed against the glass, were the girls. They stood among the prickly rosebushes, beaming wicked little grins. Delphinium and Eve whispered and giggled to each other; Bramble wore a magnificent grin on her face and a spark of light in her yellow-green eyes. Another figure stood among them. This one had his arms folded across his chest, stiff and firm and formal...... Yet he did not look displeased.
Heather Dixon Entwined
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1994–2004).