prickly

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I'm not trying to be prickly, I just don't see the point of this submission as it stands.

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Quick take

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

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adjective

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

adjective

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for prickly.

adjective

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

adjective

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

Example sentences

I'm not trying to be prickly, I just don't see the point of this submission as it stands.

The tone is a little prickly but what Henson says seems reasonable to me.

Aaron you come across so angry and prickly that even people that may agree with you do so begrudgingly.

Prepare yourself for many prickly responses, and prepare to re-post after it gets flagged.

Chasing's response does sound a bit prickly, but there's no ad hominem in it, and I can see why he/she took some offense at being told what to do.

From the developer side, Samsung seem a bit too prickly, specially when Android is touted as an "open" platform.

I used to live in South America, where people tend to get a little prickly about the US having laid claim to the term "American.

Not as prickly and disengaged from humanity as the book, while jettisoning the 9-11 truther nonsense of the movie.

The important thing to remember, though, is that one bit of prickly behavior shouldn't be enough to brand someone "an asshole.

Her way of dealing with her fear of other people is by being prickly, which makes it hard for people to get to make the effort to get to know her and get past her defenses.

But I've found it's a much better strategy to be prickly on some things and effusively praising on others than to be uniformly inoffensive.

He argues Steve used his weaknesses along with his strengths to become some kind of miraculous management guru, successfully motivating his top talent despite being "prickly".That's not the same book I read.