adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The leaves turned brown and crinkly .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His crinkly hair was a glossy brown colour still unmarked by grey; his moustache was neat and trim.
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In his crinkly fair hair there was hardly any grey.
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Overnight there was a frost and it went hard and crinkly .
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The islands rose sheer out of a millpond sea, pillars of white limestone with ochre splotches capped in crinkly green.
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Uneven blotches and crinkly patches are on the leaf surface.
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With his receding, crinkly black hair, beaky nose, toothbrush moustache and protruding teeth, Fender came gift-wrapped for cartoonists.