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wrinkly

[ ring-klee ]

adjective

, wrin·kli·er, wrin·kli·est.
  1. having wrinkles or tending to wrinkle; creased; puckery:

    a wrinkly material.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of wrinkly1

First recorded in 1565–75; wrinkle 1 + -y 1

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Example Sentences

This pair may have dried too fast, stunting their development and leaving their heads wrinkly, Pollack says.

It appears a bit like a wrinkly potato, he says — or perhaps an angry minion.

Tissues across the brain’s wrinkly outer layer help people understand language.

A bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth and make a load of money.

They merely have to grin and bear it for less than a decade—kiss some wrinkly ass, smile pretty, and pose for pictures.

Something wiggily, and black and yellow and red-spotted with wrinkly legs and a long snaky neck and head.

His coat was smooth and glossy, not rough and wrinkly like Old Rattlers, and his upraised head was small and pretty—for a snake.

Her berries were sour, her fritters wrinkly, her egg-toast smushy.

Home, and children that need you, and depend on you to keep them alive, and turn to you with their wrinkly little smiles.

“I hope thy friends will temper justice with mercy, Isabelle,” he remarked with the wrinkly smile threatening.

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