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synonyms for bushy-tailed

  • bright
  • clear
  • good
  • lively
  • vigorous
  • active
  • alert
  • blooming
  • bouncing
  • bright-eyed
  • chipper
  • dewy
  • fair
  • florid
  • glowing
  • hardy
  • invigorated
  • keen
  • like new
  • refreshed
  • rehabilitated
  • relaxed
  • relieved
  • rested
  • restored
  • revived
  • rosy
  • ruddy
  • sprightly
  • spry
  • stimulated
  • undimmed
  • unfaded
  • unused
  • unwearied
  • unwithered
  • verdant
  • vital
  • wholesome
  • young

antonyms for bushy-tailed

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  • lethargic
  • exhausted
  • lifeless
  • tired
  • unenergetic
  • worn
  • apathetic
  • delicate
  • feeble
  • gentle
  • idle
  • inactive
  • infirm
  • kind
  • lazy
  • lethargic
  • lifeless
  • soft
  • unhealthy
  • weak
  • diseased
  • fragile
  • ill
  • indisposed
  • poor
  • sick
  • sickly
  • worn
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    How to use bushy-tailed in a sentence

    His face was hidden beneath a beard of bristling, bushy red, and he had a sharp hook nose and small, bright eyes.
    THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD
    Was it some one who had watched the swift, sure-footed spring of a bushy-tailed squirrel from branch to branch?
    THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUS
    After that he and Mert, as by a common thought impelled, climbed out and went over to a bushy live oak to confer in privacy.
    CABIN FEVERB. M. BOWER
    These travelled follows are outrageous bores, with their bushy moustachios and outlandish lingo.
    ALONEMARION HARLAND
    They were not the nervous, string-halt jacks of the prairies, but the smaller black-tailed variety.
    DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEY
    He noted plenty of small ones but their short, bushy tails revealed colthood.
    DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEY
    As he was advancing towards the plantation, Grace Morgan came out of a bushy knoll and confronted him.
    A LIEUTENANT AT EIGHTEENOLIVER OPTIC
    The fat-rumped and the broad-tailed sheep are much more extensively diffused than any other.
    DOMESTIC ANIMALSRICHARD L. ALLEN
    The Rough Red was a big broad-faced man with eyes far apart and a bushy red beard.
    BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITE
    We have seen some of different sizes, with various coloured hair, and more or less bushy.
    BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME IX (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
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    OCTOBER 26, 1985
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