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- adverb In a
spiky way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Under-25s, take advantage now of easily manageable facial hair, because post-35 it will take a venomous turn and begin growing spikily from the lip region downwards, complementing your ever-accentuating neck wattle.
Slap shtick: How not to put on make-up Grace Dent 2010
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In an interview with Alan Carr on Friday on Channel 4, Alan Titchmarsh's pre-tea ITV chatshow – and its audience – came up, prompting Ross to spikily comment that among his future viewers "I'm going to have, hopefully, some people going through the menopause but not exclusively".
Media Monkey's Diary 2011
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Instead Cavendish is an eminently quotable champion, spikily eloquent, staunchly nonconformist and possessed of a former glamour model girlfriend.
Mark Cavendish a fitting winner of BBC Sports Personality of Year 2011
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In an interview with Alan Carr on Friday on Channel 4, Alan Titchmarsh's pre-tea ITV chatshow – and its audience – came up, prompting Ross to spikily comment that among his future viewers "I'm going to have, hopefully, some people going through the menopause but not exclusively".
Media Monkey's Diary 2011
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Justine Jordan on Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker available on Amazon.co.uk: Barker's sheer energy is irresistible, while the intelligence that drives this small comic universe is both spikily awkward and sweetly benign.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2010
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Justine Jordan on Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker available on Amazon.co.uk: Barker's sheer energy is irresistible, while the intelligence that drives this small comic universe is both spikily awkward and sweetly benign.
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers Omnivoracious 2010
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Justine Jordan on Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker available on Amazon.co.uk: Barker's sheer energy is irresistible, while the intelligence that drives this small comic universe is both spikily awkward and sweetly benign.
Shelfari Omnivoracious 2010
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Briny seas: In "The Piano" Campion reveals a romanticism that was not evident in the spikily oddball "Sweetie" or in her wonderful three-hour film about the New Zealand writer Janet Frame "An Angel at My Table."
Passion For 'Piano' 2008
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The music is engrossing and attentive to the story, spikily modern in a way that almost seems old-fashioned now.
Archive 2006-06-01 Roger Sutton 2006
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The music is engrossing and attentive to the story, spikily modern in a way that almost seems old-fashioned now.
Add 'em up, Bobby Roger Sutton 2006
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