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gristly

[ UK /ɡɹˈɪstli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. difficult to chew

How To Use gristly In A Sentence

  • The taco was a little tough and gristly, but everything was improved by the addition of a generous spoonful of tangy, thin red sauce and a chunkier salsa verde, both served icy-cold. Last Night « PubliCola
  • The meat was grey and gristly, like it had been beaten with a mallet, mashed into a steak-like shape and then battered and deep-fried.
  • If there is even a suspicion of truth in tributes which have, to the last eulogist, declared the sublime, apple-tumescing appeal of a plump, lustful, self-destructive alcoholic, whose excesses make top femme fatale Angelina Jolie look like a much tattooed Milly-Molly-Mandy, you have to wonder if blanched, gristly diet victims along Renée Zellweger's lines really represent any kind of shared ideal. The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett
  • Specimens consumed in Orkney have been described as gristly, and those taken from certain beds have too strong a flavour of iodine or seaweed.
  • Long nights of Pierrot locked inside invisible boxes, trapped and wailing soundlessly, of Pierrot suspended from invisible trees by invisible ropes, of Pierrot ascending stairs and descending stairs, of Pierrot gesturing the gristly aftermath of a death by Russian Roulette. The Clown Show
  • The steak is gristly and pretty tasteless - the latter a characteristic it shares with the dull chips.
  • Mechanized trawlers have been killing the adults for a while now, their shells washed ashore providing the gristly evidence. Bharati Chaturvedi: Turning People Turtles in East India
  • It's a nice, gristly, Germanic word, contrasting with the limitless space evoked by the latinate "America". Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke
  • Arlo wondered if his wife noticed the gristly lumps that had formed along the old scar on Shadow's neck, where the footpad of Cody's dirt bike had caught her. Deer Collage
  • Both women tore into gristly steaks using sheer will more than the sharpness of their cutlery.
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