Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
superlative form ofprickly : mostprickly .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word prickliest.
Examples
-
But participants say that delegates in Nagoya have been unable to agree in two of the meeting's prickliest areas – setting a target for protected marine areas and setting up a system for equitably sharing the profits from genetic resources, such as plants that Western drug companies have harvested to produce drugs.
-
But he knew, tomorrow she would be the prickliest of pears.
-
And, of course, as she is a durian lover, one had to stop along the way to buy the world's smelliest, prickliest fruit.
Road to the islands Glenda Larke 2009
-
And, of course, as she is a durian lover, one had to stop along the way to buy the world's smelliest, prickliest fruit.
Archive 2009-06-01 Glenda Larke 2009
-
But curiously, even Hughes seems to recognize that such efforts at outreach have their limits — and that what falls outside those limits apparently includes one of the prickliest issues on the U.S. public-diplomacy agenda.
Ears Wide Shut 2006
-
But curiously, even Hughes seems to recognize that such efforts at outreach have their limits — and that what falls outside those limits apparently includes one of the prickliest issues on the U.S. public-diplomacy agenda.
Ears Wide Shut 2006
-
But curiously, even Hughes seems to recognize that such efforts at outreach have their limits — and that what falls outside those limits apparently includes one of the prickliest issues on the U.S. public-diplomacy agenda.
Ears Wide Shut 2006
-
Reducing the refugee outflow will require progress on the prickliest issue facing Iraq: reducing its violent sectarian divisions.
-
“The winner could be the kid whose seed grows the prickliest cactus, or the kid whose egg hatches the cutest dinosaur.”
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Freeman Dyson’s biotech future 2007
-
The winner could be the kid whose seed grows the prickliest cactus, or the kid whose egg hatches the cutest dinosaur.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Freeman Dyson’s biotech future 2007
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.