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prickly

/'prɪkli/

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adjective
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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barbed barbellate briary briery bristled bristly burred burry setaceous setose spiny thorny armed
adjective
very irritable
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"he became prickly and spiteful"

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bristly splenetic waspish ill-natured

Examples of prickly

"he became prickly and spiteful"