Pin-pricked

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having been pricked by a pin; having a pin stuck through.

    "[B]ut Gillespie was too tough or insensitive to feel the lethal waves sent out from his pin-pricked image."

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"[B]ut Gillespie was too tough or insensitive to feel the lethal waves sent out from his pin-pricked image."

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