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- noun The state or quality of being
crinkly .
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Examples
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Despite having had three children and commenced menopause, her belly was trim, even muscular, and showed only the faintest trace of middle-aged crinkliness where it strained a bit against the waist of her cutoff jeans.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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Please, do not put your crisp packet in the ashtray, because then I have to remove it, in all of its greasy crinkliness, from the ashtray in order to stub out my cigarette.
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Please, do not put your crisp packet in the ashtray, because then I have to remove it, in all of its greasy crinkliness, from the ashtray in order to stub out my cigarette.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Out came all the braids; the resultant rampant crinkliness was plaited into two tails and tied, not with two bows alone, but with four, of brand-new ribbon, brightly blue.
Anne of Avonlea 1909
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Out came all the braids; the resultant rampant crinkliness was plaited into two tails and tied, not with two bows alone, but with four, of brand-new ribbon, brightly blue.
Anne of Avonlea 1908
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I love the crinkliness of running through crisp, fallen leaves; it’s almost as good as the crunch of running on frosty mud.
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I love the crinkliness of running through crisp, fallen leaves; it’s almost as good as the crunch of running on frosty mud.
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