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词汇 spikily
释义 spikily
adverb
uk /ˈspaɪ.kəl.i/ us /ˈspaɪ.kəl.i/

spikilyadverb (POINTED)


in a way that is covered with spikes(= thin, narrow shapes with sharp points at one end), or has that appearance:
Even their hairstyles are spikily similar.
The movement is precise, and spikily danced.
The balconies are rectangular along one side of the building, and spikily triangular on another.
The hills stood up spikily against the night sky.
Her coarse hair stood up spikily.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sharp and blunt
among
angularity
blunt
hone
jag
keen
point
pointed
prickly
razor-sharp
sharp
sharpen
sharply
sharpness
spiked
spiky
spiny
strop
super-sharp

spikilyadverb (BAD MOOD)


informal
in a way that is not polite and that shows that you are annoyed:
When this criticism was put to him, he reacted spikily.
Even his close colleagues spoke of him in a spikily dismissive way.
After three defeats already against the other team, they responded spikily to them.
She sits spikily in judgment on her poor friends.
They were spikily competitive for a long time, but were eventually defeated.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Bad-tempered
argumentative
bad-tempered
be hell on wheelsidiom
be like a bear with a sore headidiom
be spoiling for a fightidiom
grouchiness
grouchy
grumpily
grumpiness
grumpy
pettish
pettishly
petulance
petulancy
petulant
surlily
surliness
testily
testiness
testy

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