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spiky

[spahy-kee] / ˈspaɪ ki /
















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He was dressed casually in a blue, long-sleeved top, jeans and brown boots, and had his distinctive spiky hair and some facial hair.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

However, the world number one did not look entirely happy even as she swept aside Iatcenko - then had a spiky exchange with a reporter in her post-match news conference.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

It’s immersive, character-driven and stylish; a spiky, enjoyable piece of filmmaking that is wholly distinctive and hasn’t had all its personality sanded down, the kind of movie you could recommend to anyone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The fall 2026 collection from Georgian brand Lado Bokuchava is a silver grommet fantasia, and Hodakova has been making elegantly articulated spiky clothing for a number of seasons now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

“Oh, those things! The spiky ones without a base so you can't put them down? Are they still taking up loft space?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

So much of his spikier music deserves attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

Mulaney’s comedy, however, has become spikier, pricklier, sometimes slower while remaining as funny as ever, like he’s a pitcher who learned to mix up speeds.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

Act 2, “Visitor From Hollywood,” is a spikier, shorter segue into satire.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

At Edgbaston on Thursday the sledging is bound to have a spikier edge.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2019

Desdemona’s hair was long and silky, but I’d gotten Jimmy Zizmo’s spikier variety.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

On set or onstage, she will throw herself into the scrappiest, spikiest, ugliest facets of any part, without ego or undue seriousness.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021

Shirley, director Josephine Decker’s new film about a few months in the life of the writer Shirley Jackson, aims to resemble a Shirley Jackson story of the very spikiest variety.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2020

But with “Jessica Jones,” which returns March 8 for a second season, she is able to let the spikiest elements of her imagination run amok.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018

Elegantly observed and hysterically funny, it is Rich's spikiest work to date, sidestepping his usual romantic softness in favour of addressing tensions between Brooklyn's hipster excesses and Herschel's desperate poverty.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2013




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