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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(informal, vulgar) having the characteristics of a prick; being unpleasant, rude or annoying..
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.
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Prickish means (informal, vulgar) having the characteristics of a prick; being unpleasant, rude or annoying..
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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.
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