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- adjective
Exciting ,astonishing ,frightening , orhorrifying .
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Examples
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Annis - I haven't read the Ariana Franklin books but have read some hair-curling things about them...
The Sins of the Father, by Catherine Hanley. Book review. Carla 2009
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For a concise, hair-curling summary of how (if not, fully, why) we invaded Iraq, one can do worse than read Mark Danner's long, great essay "Iraq: The War of the Imagination" in the current issue of the New York Review of Books.
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But their hair-curling populism puts them squarely at odds with the pro-business, pro-free trade Democrats in Congress, who call themselves "Blue Dogs."
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For a truly hair-curling reading experience, gaze at Revelation Unveiled, by Tim Yes-That-Tim LaHaye.
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Gimmie a rigid folder hierarchy and I can find my work no matter how hair-curling the file name turns out. reply
Google Docs Gets Folders, Now What About Gmail? Duncan Riley 2005
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I've sat in some of these briefings that, frankly, were a little hair-curling.
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I expected hair-curling spins around corners, and terrifying drives along cliffs.
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I expected hair-curling spins around corners, and terrifying drives along cliffs.
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I expected hair-curling spins around corners, and terrifying drives along cliffs.
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A soft, threatening rumble responded ... a hair-curling sound as dozens, hundreds of massive shapes bestirred themselves in long lines reaching back into the far places of the mine.
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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