bristly
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Advances by Gillette that made everyday shaving less painful—and the rise of bristly adversaries like Stalin and Hitler—drove American politicians into a long period of clean-shavedness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Idris makes his rookie character bristly yet endearing, with the thin-skinned transparency of a generation raised to measure its worth in likes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025
But despite its bristly concept, “The End” largely forgoes any direct images of annihilation, settling into a vast underground bunker with seemingly endless resources well after most humans have perished.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2024
The observed species are classified as baleen whales, which have a large bristly whalebone at the front of their mouth to filter feed, instead of teeth.
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2023
Her customers, too, began to look like their purchases: Companera Sordo with her bristly jowls and upturned nose, Companero Llorente with his pink eyes and jerking chin.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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