What's the difference between addled and woolly?

Addled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Addle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I also don't particularly want to be reminded of my drug-addled, self-obsessed teenage antics.
  • (2) I just don’t know, but at least every time I hear this great piece of music I can picture all this and more in my tiny drug-addled mind.
  • (3) In a sense, the ABB's petition is encouraging, since it suggests that eight years mainlining easy cash has addled their brains.
  • (4) If the automatic budget cuts are a brick wall, the Democrats and Republicans are the addled maniacs fighting for control of the wheel as they drive straight for it.
  • (5) But I find myself too addled by the fact of Hamm's handsomeness, and also his celebrity, to make much sense.
  • (6) It even becomes, in the mind of some of its more addled fanatics, a universal language.
  • (7) Cracked Actor – Alan Yentob’s BBC documentary of the 1974 US tour, revealing a frail, coke-addled Bowie on the edge of dissolution, as weird and remote as his role in The Man Who Fell to Earth – was very much the exception.
  • (8) With his contortionist’s body, vulnerability, pale skin and fierce red hair, he didn’t suit the classical white ballets; it took the visceral, addled heroes of Kenneth MacMillan and new, abstract choreographers to turn him into a star.
  • (9) MacFarlane was also recently in trouble after hosting a televised comedy "roasting" of the drug and drink-addled Charlie Sheen that played relentlessly on the cruel notion that the actor would soon be dead.
  • (10) They come with a reputation, built on a drug-addled lifestyle and wild, willy-waving gigs.
  • (11) In fact, he says, "it was all a drug-addled circus and journalists who also knew that were part of the fraud, reporting on the cyclists as if they were heroes when they knew they were not".
  • (12) House speaker John Boehner to resign after battle with conservatives Read more It was fitting because, over the past five years, Boehner himself has presided over a far less decorous and infinitely more fractious show of ardent faith, as the House Republican majority has been inundated with true believers in the government-hating, austerity-addled Tea Party gospel.
  • (13) The news led me to wonder whether Lidl's appeal now extends beyond cherry-addled teenagers and to that holy grail of the advertising executive, the ordinary family.
  • (14) The mass killing of Afghan civilians by a US soldier in Kandahar was a shocking reminder of an enduring truth of this decade-old conflict: the efforts of thousands of people over many years at a cost of billions can be undone in a few seconds by the actions of a single, hate-addled individual.
  • (15) The freewheeling optimism of the 1960s had given way to the drug-addled reality of the 1970s and they were battered and bruised from 16 years on the road.
  • (16) Inherent Vice is the story of drug-addled Larry "Doc" Sportello, a private detective who gets pulled into a murder investigation after taking on a case from an ex-girlfriend.
  • (17) Is it, as Franzen and the others fear, turning kids into emoticon-addled zombies, unable to connect, unable to think, form a coherent thought or even make eye contact?
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest As much as Hologram Tupac undoubtedly blew the festival-addled minds of Coachella attendees on Sunday, there was also a sense of inevitability about it.
  • (19) It is feasible too that Frey's booze-soaked, crack-addled brain did remember events differently from the way they occurred; after all, a large section of his life exists like a half-remembered drunken night out.
  • (20) Colin Welland's great fat arse and great shorts addling, sploshing through mud, making aeroplane noises, and chewing on an apple, and I thought, oh, you know, it's going to be one of those dire, dread embarrassments, because it ain't gonna work.

Woolly


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
  • (a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
  • (a.) Clothed with wool.
  • (a.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
  • (2) Analysis of these human competitor proteins with homologous assay systems of viral core proteins and corresponding antisera showed that all, including the normal tissue extracts, appear similar to core proteins of known viruses, especially the RD 114 and woolly monkey species.
  • (3) Our physiologic, clinical and pathologic studies suggest that woolly monkeys develop hypertension spontaneously and could be a useful model for the study of human hypertension.
  • (4) The binding protein from Rauscher and woolly monkey type-C viruses was the fastest migrating of the virion proteins in SDS-polyacrylamide gels and thus is designated p10 according to previous convention although our estimates of molecular weight were 8-9,000 daltons.
  • (5) However, the sarcoma virus genome could be rescued from these NF cells by co-cultivation with cells carrying "helper" Kirsten mouse leukemia virus or Woolly Monkey leukemia virus.
  • (6) But the Labour leader has only himself to blame because of his hopelessly woolly response to a question on this in his BBC interview on Monday.
  • (7) Electron microscope and gel electrophoresis studies show that the high-molecular-weight (50 to 70S) RNA extract from Friend virus (FV) is a dimer with the same basic structure previously observed for the RNAs from RD-114 virus, baboon virus, and woolly monkey virus.
  • (8) Cell lines transformed by woolly monkey sarcoma virus (WSV) in the absence of infectious virus production were analyzed for the expression of woolly monkey helper viral p30, p12, and gp70 antigens.
  • (9) Whereas mouse gs antigen was clearly detectable in tissue culture cells of several mouse strains, the respective gs antigens of rat, cat, Chinese hamster, woolly monkey, and gibbon ape were not detectable in cells of those species, using assays of comparable sensitivity.
  • (10) Her time among the Jaeger rails showed her that while customers (like those at M&S) tended to be well into middle age, that didn't mean they wanted elasticated waists and sensible woollies.
  • (11) This study describes the differential distribution of enkephalin-positive woolly fibers and acetylcholinesterase staining on adjacent sections in both the monkey and human basal forebrain area in an attempt to define the relationship between the basal ganglia and the basal nucleus of Meynert.
  • (12) Their focus on supernatural faith – on healing and speaking in tongues – is shared with LoveBristol, but E 5 put less emphasis on woolly jumpers and green politics and more on slick online videos and social media .
  • (13) Acquired progressive kinking of hair is an entity distinct from woolly hair in its onset at or after puberty, predominant involvement of frontal, temporal, and vertex regions of the scalp as well as the supra-auricular and postauricular margins, and a tendency for affected hairs to resemble pubic hair both in texture and color.
  • (14) So far, approximately 48 patients with woolly hair nevus have been described in the world literature.
  • (15) It sounds terribly woolly, and it is – the report is full of "principles of stewardship", memorandums of understanding and statements of best practice.
  • (16) Deep inside these caves, however, their minds moved to different matters and artists concentrated instead on the more majestic animals – mammoths and woolly rhinos – that then populated the Dordogne.
  • (17) As in the woolly animal, vasomotor responses were disorganized, although there was a tendency towards vasodilation.4.
  • (18) The degradation and excretion of 2-14C-uric acid were examined in three adult woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagothrichia) to determine the basis for the relatively high serum and urinary uric acid concentrations previously reported in this species.
  • (19) Murine (Rauscher, Ki-MuLV, AT-124 and two other xenotropic viruses), feline, RD-114 and Simian (woolly monkey and baboon) type-C viruses possessed the ability to rescue the sarcoma genome from NP cells but not AKR leukemia virus.
  • (20) Muscle spindles were sought in peri-auricular muscles of several primate species (rhesus monkey, woolly monkey, and baboon).