| brickly | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brittle |
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| cackly | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: squawky |
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| prickly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, splenetic, waspish |
| sickly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, under the weather, unwell |
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| (adjective) unhealthy looking | Synonyms: sallow |