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  • adjective comparative form of wooly: more wooly

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Examples

  • Daddy Lion: "The Scientist's Lament" The newest song from Daddy Lion, the bedroom project of District-based singer-songwriter Jeremy Joseph, offers a denser, woolier take on Bob Mould-inspired, early-'90s college rock.

    Singles file: Pusha T, Rye Rye, Wolfram, Daddy Lion, Decemberists Post 2011

  • The newest song from Daddy Lion, the bedroom project of District-based singer-songwriter Jeremy Joseph, offers a denser, woolier take on Bob Mould-inspired, early-'90s college rock.

    Singles file: Pusha T, Rye Rye, the Decemberists Allison Stewart 2011

  • Yes, the good grey system has a way of disciplining even the wilder and woolier elements of Canadian politics.

    Anticlimaxing in Ottawa: Warman v. Lemire 2008

  • I've known Karl since I was about 16 (we co-wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction in 2000) and I've never met a woolier, more imaginative, more audacious worldbuilder in all my time in the field.

    Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives 2006

  • This system has been traded in, notionally in line with thinking since the sixties about equality between the sexes, and other woolier notions about marrying for love.

    For better or nothing Ms Robinson 2008

  • Yes, the good grey system has a way of disciplining even the wilder and woolier elements of Canadian politics.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • The UFO phenomenon is much wilder and woolier than just little greys in tin can spaceships, I can tell you, also.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • Mothers were walking up and down the float gluing cotton fluff to the sheep to make them look woolier.

    Lance Mannion: 2005

  • Mothers were walking up and down the float gluing cotton fluff to the sheep to make them look woolier.

    Irish eyes right! Fo'ard! March! 2005

  • I don't suppose anything woolier could be found on the plains of Nebraska where I am reliably informed they've stuck up a pole and labeled it the cinter of the United States.

    At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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  • This is wild(i)er!

    February 26, 2015