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• s  very irritable
  he became prickly and spiteful
• s  having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• Pushed to the fringe of physics by his prickly pacifism and an academic career that seemed designed to annoy his professors, the future emblem of genius was, at the time the .
• Spitzer's Superbia had rankled old and new in Albany, certainly the Republican majority in the statehouse, but also many Democrats who were astounded at his prickly partisanship .
• Australia also had a distressing experience with the prickly pear but in this case there was a happy ending.

• bristly
• splenetic
• waspish
• barbed
• barbellate
• briary
• briery
• bristled
• burred
• burry
• setose
• setaceous
• spiny
• thorny

News & Articles

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• Magicool Plus® pioneering medical sprays now available on NHS Prescription and OTC
  LONDON, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Magicool Plus® range of OTC topical, Class IIa sprays were recently listed in the NHS Drug Tariff part IX, under a specially created category and is available on prescription and OTC.  The range comprises Magicool Plus® Prickly Heat,...
  June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire
• Khamenei's diplomatic adviser Velayati eyes Iran's presidency
  By Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - With the ear of Iran's supreme leader as the "real foreign minister" behind the scenes, Ali Akbar Velayati has long tended to the Islamic Republic's prickly relations with the West and now hopes to put his diplomacy to use as president. Although a loyal conservative, the 67-year-old foreign affairs adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he wants to soften the ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• China overreaches after French documentary on Tibet, ensuring that everyone will now watch it
  China is infamously restrictive when it comes to journalism, and is doubly prickly when it comes to reporting on Tibet. But even by those standards its appears to have counter-productively overreacted ...
  June 12, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• John Prescott in Reuters UK
  Brown was "frustrating, annoying, bewildering and prickly", Prescott said, while Blair had reneged several times on pledges to make way for Brown as prime minister.
• Greg Kinnear in San Jose Mercury News
  I don't think they call me when it comes time to do a guy who doesn't have some prickly behavior. I don't seem to see a lot of those,Kinnear said in an interview at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, where both "Ghost Town" and...
• Marc Emery in London Free Press
  I'm confident the United States Justice Department will see the good in this deal and would want to avoid a very -- I think-- prickly and unpopular prosecution,Emery told reporters.