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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

In Brooks' full statement later that night, it stated that the attacker's hair was "long, over his ears and it was frizzy and stuck out at the sides".

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2023

The other, Sammi Hanratty, portraying the marvelously weird Misty, knelt behind, her frizzy blond hair aglow, bringing unspeakable news from beyond the cabin’s walls.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023

And I met Ann herself, a plump, lively woman with dark frizzy hair and the same angular chin as Barack.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama