Prickish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Prickish is an adjective meaning (informal, vulgar) having the characteristics of a prick; being unpleasant, rude or annoying.
Meaning
(informal, vulgar) having the characteristics of a prick; being unpleasant, rude or annoying.
Example Sentences
The lost cause of psychoanalysis, so infused with a non-intellectual bias, dominated by partisan interests, and characterized by a stunning degree of ill-will and prickish behaviour, has finally made way for a new cause – actually an old one – that of rigorous, informed scholarship.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pricky, pricklesome, prickly, spinous, pestilential, senticous.
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