What's the difference between crinkly and wrinkly?
Crinkly
Definition:
(a.) Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.
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) None of the mechanisms operating in most of the 20 known tail mutants in the mouse operates in crinkly-tail.
(3) This is related to his being on the crinkly side of 60 but mostly, I suspect, it's a perception that he'd got ratty and weary inside Norman Foster's glassy orb .
(4) Crinkly-tail, cy, is a new recessive mutant with imperfect penetrance, in chromosome 4 of the mouse.
Wrinkly
Definition:
(a.) Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know it might sound awful coming off a pair of old wrinklies, but we’re two halves of a coin.” The memory of informing women that their husbands had been killed haunts Barry more than conflict itself Powles had never been much of a drinker in the army, but he started to drink secretly after he retired, hiding alcohol in the garage.
(2) In his 1986 limited series, Miller brilliantly contrasts a shallow and self-centred, increasingly wrinkly and jaded caped crusader with a Kal-El who remains youthful, noble and good-hearted – yet as boring as dry toast for dinner.
(3) While the oldies carry on running the show, pocketing the cash for their pension funds, tweaking the levers with wrinkly hands.
(4) Writing in the Guardian , Zoe Williams offered wrinklies an update on modern culture.
(5) 800g frozen cleaned baby octopus, defrosted ½ lemon, thinly sliced, plus 1 small lemon, peeled, the flesh chopped Salt and black pepper 100ml olive oil, plus extra to serve 3 tbsp red-wine vinegar ¾ tsp dried oregano 130g cherry tomatoes ¼ tsp caster sugar 150g dried green lentils ½ small red onion, peeled and very thinly sliced 1 medium stick celery, thinly sliced 5g (about 1 tsp) fresh oregano leaves 30g wrinkly black olives, pitted and torn Separate the octopus heads from the tentacles and put both in a medium saucepan with the lemon slices, a teaspoon and a quarter of salt and enough water (probably about 500ml) amply to cover the octopus.
(6) We emerge with wrinkly fingers, while a more recent arrival performs somersaults to assembled applause.
(7) And in that already existing environment, where women are used to being told that they're too fat, too old, too wrinkly, just too much in general, what could be simpler than to add another to the list, in the form of too smelly?
(8) So are fat women and wrinklies taking an unfair share of maternity services?
(9) There seems to be a correspondence between mouse visible skin wrinking (UV-B event) and two histological events: increase in glycosaminoglycans and alteration in collagen.
(10) She still has a screenshot of a tweet he has deleted, calling her a “wrinkly old ginger bird”.
(11) So just because we’re now old and wrinkly doesn’t mean we’ve suddenly turned into Enoch Powell or George Wallace.Racism is indefensible, but so is ageism.
(12) The wrinkly skin syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by wrinkling of the skin of the dorsum of the hands and feet, decreased elastic recoil of the skin, an increased number of palmar and plantar creases, multiple musculoskeletal abnormalities, microcephaly, and mental retardation.
(13) Because instead of just selling us physical insecurity by implying we're fat or wrinkly, beauty companies are now trying to make us feel insecure about our insecurities – all while giving themselves a pat on the back for "empowering" us to feel better (and collecting our money, of course).
(14) But now I just want to live.” The operation will throw her “into early menopause and all the horrible things that go with that - it can affect bone density, make your skin get wrinkly, give you hot flushes.
(15) Here, too, adolescents are routinely sacrificed at the behest of a ruling elite, all the while maintaining their wrinkly grip on the levers of power.