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View usage for: (brɪsli) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]Bristly hair is thick and rough. His bristly red hair was standing on end. 2. adjectiveIf a part of someone's body is bristly, it is covered with bristles because it has not been shaved recently. ...the giant's bristly cheek. More Synonyms of bristly bristly in American English (ˈbrɪsli) adjectiveWord forms: ˈbristlier or ˈbristliest1. having bristles; rough with bristles Derived forms bristliness (ˈbristliness) noun Examples of 'bristly' in a sentencebristly He had strong black eyebrows which you would have thought would meet in the middle but didn't, and a thick bristly moustache.You had to tread carefully with all river men, they were a bristly lot.Vince the Vile Smollett was young, stocky, and boasted a bristly brown mustache. a plant with bristly pale stems and hairy toothed leaves He lifted a beer to his bristly mouth. Synonyms whiskered stubbly unshaven bewhiskered Additional synonymsThe factory was surrounded by barbed wire. Synonyms spiked, pointed, toothed, hooked, notched, prickly, jagged, thorny, pronged, spiny, snaggy a bearded 40-year-old sociology professor Synonyms unshaven, hairy, whiskered, stubbly, bushy, shaggy, hirsute (formal), bristly, bewhiskered people who looked rough and stubbly Synonyms coarse, disordered, tangled, hairy, fuzzy, bushy, shaggy, dishevelled, uncut, unshaven, tousled, bristly, unshorn - brisk
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