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  • noun Alternative spelling of woolliness.

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Examples

  • She kicks off her shoes and climbs on the bed resting her face against the blanket's soft wooliness.

    The Blanket Susan Tepper 2011

  • Sometimes I think they choose coherence over a more realistic wooliness.

    Not Ugly Betty « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Mr. Cameron's big idea, the so-called Big Society, also has the potential to catch on around the world, much as another British invention, privatization, did during the 1980s and 1990s — but only if it turns from its current wooliness into something more concrete.

    How Britain Can Lead the World Matthew Bishop 2011

  • His chronicle evokes in all its wooliness the storied past and indestructible spirit of a crucial American subculture, when folks on the stroll "worked all week, and Saturday night was their night to howl."

    On the Midnight Special Eddie Dean 2011

  • Has this new charter of wooliness completely replaced the original Reith charter ?

    The legal approach 2009

  • And this failure is promoted by the unfortunate wooliness of the concept being addressed here.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Lessig’s “Code” at 10: 2009

  • Rather, the essay should be read as a complexly equivocal attack on a whole ideology of theory as "non-sense," in which the bitingly direct sentence is designed to replace Continental wooliness.

    Archive 2008-11-01 enowning 2008

  • Rather, the essay should be read as a complexly equivocal attack on a whole ideology of theory as "non-sense," in which the bitingly direct sentence is designed to replace Continental wooliness.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • Morrison admires the Church of England for its non-docrtinaire, tolerant position (or wooliness as it is often termed).

    Religion Maxine 2006

  • He actually said some pertinent things, but they got lost in the ‘liberal’ wooliness wrapping the message.

    Politics « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

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