刺々しい

とげとげしい

sharp, harsh, stinging, thorny, snappy

刺

し とげ

calling card

々

のま くりかえし

repetition of kanji (sometimes voiced)

朝々暮々

ちょうちょうぼぼ

every morning and evening

生々世々

しょうじょうせぜ

eternity, forever, through all eternity

優々閑々

ゆうゆうかんかん

composed and unhurried, easygoing and leisurely, in indolence

戦々慄々

せんせんりつりつ

trembling with fear, filled with trepidation

孜々営々

ししえいえい

assiduously, with unremitting zeal

磊々落々

らいらいらくらく

openhearted, unaffected, free and easy

喧々囂々

けんけんごうごう

wild uproar, pandemonium, clamor of voices, tumult

虚々実々

きょきょじつじつ

full of wiles and tricks, match between persons equal in shrewdness mobilizing all the tricks each can muster, shrewdly avoiding the opponent's strong points and attacking its weaknesses

個々別々

ここべつべつ

each one separately

種々様々

しゅじゅさまざま

a great variety of, all sorts or kinds of, multifarious

戦々恐々

せんせんきょうきょう

trembling with fear, filled with trepidation

奇々怪々

ききかいかい

very strange; bizarre; weird; mysterious

時々刻々

じじこっこく じじこくこく

hourly, from one minute to the next, from hour to hour, moment by moment, with each passing moment

所々方々

しょしょほうぼう

everywhere

是々非々

ぜぜひひ

free and unbiased, fair and just, ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong, calling spade a spade

歳々年々

さいさいねんねん

annually, every year, year in and year out, from year to year