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  • noun The state or quality of being crinkly.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    The sound of pet hates #3,894 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • I love the crinkliness of running through crisp, fallen leaves; it’s almost as good as the crunch of running on frosty mud.

    What’s brown and sticky? 2009

  • I love the crinkliness of running through crisp, fallen leaves; it’s almost as good as the crunch of running on frosty mud.

    What’s brown and sticky? 2009

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