Definition of "pricklier" []

• Comparative form of prickly: more prickly (adjective)

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• "The debate's exchanges at Drake University were a bit sharper and pricklier than in this year's previous Republican debates."
• "Metzenbaum, a pricklier personality in a pricklier time, is unlikely to enjoy a similar honor."
• "On the pricklier side, some in Germany suspect that, in an effort to highlight his recent push for a refocusing of U.S. energies away from Iraq and onto Afghanistan, he may call for increased German support there."