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frizzy

[friz-ee] / ˈfrɪz i /
ADJECTIVE
curly
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But in a 1989 profile by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, he has frizzy hair and rougher features.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

With her long, frizzy hair, musicality and earth-mother vibe, Ms. King fit in, though she was comparatively unfree, being “a single mother when most of the women around her were not.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

When I was a kid, I remember, I had short, frizzy hair with glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

Another eyewitness, also at the bus stop, described one of the attackers as having "medium length fair hair which was frizzy".

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2023

She put her fingers up to her face, felt the wide nose and thin bps, the too-high forehead and tangled mass of frizzy hair.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

“It’s curlier and frizzier and I love it,” Kouatchou said.

From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2021

If you have frizzy hair, the brush element is key if you want to blow-dry your hair without making it into an even frizzier mess.

From Slate ● May 14, 2019

Needless to say, the dye job did not help matters: This summer, my bob is thirstier, frizzier, and generally more pissed off than ever before.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2018

Holding on to the hair means it can’t fly around and become frizzier.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2015

Her hair grew even frizzier because she kept running her hands through it in frustration.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld


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