gristly
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Yet with a little sugar, and a simmering dembow beat, Towers’ gristly timbre elasticized into a warm, caramelized tone all his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
The patty is tasteless and perhaps a little gristly.
From Salon ● May 14, 2022
Those meats tend to be gristly or over-seasoned to mask the gnarly cut.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
Or the more gristly, more controlled team that has tended to grind a little more, to come on strong rather than devour opponents from the start?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2018
I couldn’t afford a drab for an apple and meat pie, so I had snuck some barley bread and a gristly sausage out of the Mess.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
And it had something beautiful too, Brazil’s team of all the No 10s broken like a butterfly on a wheel by the gristlier, more industrial football of Italy’s champions-in-waiting.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2020
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