woolliness

Example Sentences

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Yet he shears away the woolliness of twentieth-century welfare capitalism.

From Nature • Oct. 13, 2019

As it is, a white sheet - or more properly speaking, considering its soft, stuffy woolliness, a white blanket - is stretched across the landscape to the south-west, where the sea would show.

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.

It was a grey day with a gentle wind, the sky of a teased pearl woolliness with curious warm tints in it here and there.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

As the parts mature, the woolliness usually disappears, except along the midrib and principal veins, which become almost glabrous.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low

It now indicates, generally speaking, an intellectual defect which expresses itself in a literary quality one can only call woolliness.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius