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prickly

('pr/I/kl/i/ )

adjective (a)

Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.(adjective)

source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

very irritable(adj.all)

Example:
He became prickly and spiteful.

Synonym:
bristly, splenetic, waspish

source: wordnet30
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.(adj.all)

Synonym:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny

source: wordnet30

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