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UK
/bɹˈɪstli/
]
ADJECTIVE
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having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
setaceous whiskers
burred fruits
a horse with a short bristly mane
bristly shrubs -
very irritable
witty and waspish about his colleagues
bristly exchanges between the White House and the press
he became prickly and spiteful
How To Use bristly In A Sentence
- Their baleen plates have bristly inner edges that intertwine to form a strainer or filter.
- Thorne: Kent's bristly personality can't erase Hall of Fame career - USATODAY. com Thorne: Kent's bristly personality can't erase Hall of Fame career
- The bandleader, who doubles as the vocalist, is a small, nimble man with a mobile face and dark, bristly hair.
- She finds his beard too bristly.
- The seeds of bristly sarsaparilla, currant, and soapberry lie dormant in the soil and germinate only after being burned; ecologists call the process ‘seed banking.’
- They have a soft leathery texture and the margins are sometimes crisped and smooth or ciliolate or bristly.
- They were still comically stiff-legged and bristly as they aloofly sniffed noses. CHAPTER XXXV
- He had long, wiry black hair, and a bristly goatee-beard-mustache combination around his lower face.
- Page 169 pines, rise like slender columns, and are crowned with a tuft of knarly limbs and long, bristly leaves, through which the breezes murmur with a monotonous sound, much like that of falling waters, or waves breaking on a beach. The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
- In fact, I once saw a woman sitting on the ground with a bristly little piglet on her lap.