woolliness

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

From Nature • Oct. 13, 2019

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 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)

It would be proof positive of the woolliness of the West.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith

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