Meanings
- not comparableHaving fingernails (often of a specified kind).
a dirty-fingernailed hustler
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“Are you aware, by the way, that Santoul is quite well known in the entertainment world? His filmworks are playing in quite a few theaters in Likat—” “I want his balls!” Karine screamed, making two upraised cups of her talon-fingernailed hands.
1990 April 28, James Luceno, chapter 17, in Illegal Alien, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, part 4 (Downside Up), pages 220–221
Origin
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