adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bitter wind whips across the seared fields and bristly pastures behind the produce stand.
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Cluster flies are bristly gray insects, about five times bigger than the ordinary housefly, Musca domestica.
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Like Taylor, Goodrich was a bristly sort.
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Old Thorvald was 87 and his jowled face was bristly with white whiskers.
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Only months before he had held me like this and pressed his bristly mouth against mine.
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The guy was all bristly and red and puffed up, in fatigue pants and a brown shirt.