grizzle
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There’s spots of gray grizzle visible on his chin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2023
But if he must, he’ll give it more sizzle than grizzle — for you.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
With “Hands of Stone,” Robert De Niro officially enters his Burgess Meredith-in-“Rocky” phase, bringing the ringside grizzle and rumpled gravitas by the pound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2016
Like a middle-aged heartthrob, Koko has a graceful grey grizzle around the mouth now, and Woss says his leading man will not take on any more films.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2012
“Yes, got a nice beard. It’s turning white fast, beginning to grizzle up.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
She brings a change in tone compared with her grizzled predecessors, like Leo Gerard, the union’s longest-serving president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Fast facts: A grizzled version of the title character is played by Hugh Jackman in this drama, which reimagines the altruistic thief as an aging man grappling with his violent past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Matt Roush says, “I hope voters give grizzled veteran Sam Elliott his due for a memorable ‘Landman’ arc.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
"As a crime viewer, I've had enough of troubled, grizzled detectives in the wilderness battling their demons," he said.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
They went out and returned with the grizzled boat for the paralyzed man to examine.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
No matter that the Aberdonian shot a final-day 67 when the rest of the field were moaning and grizzling like bairns about the long grass.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2012
Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Call it grumbling, griping, grizzling, grouching – take your pick.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
Urbane, well-built, his face framed with grizzling hair, he is famed for two characteristics-his impeccable courtesy, his freedom from mannerism.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
Then my three younger brothers set up their own grizzling chorus about how unfair it was that they didn’t get paid for anything.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
