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gristly

[gris-lee] / ˈgrɪs li /


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Some of the best food we enjoy today started as “peasant meals” — made out of cheap, discarded ingredients treated with love, often braised or smoked until they transform from gristly to glorious meats.

From Seattle Times Apr. 27, 2023

The patty is tasteless and perhaps a little gristly.

From Salon May 14, 2022

Amid this chewy, gristly spectacle, Snyder’s own tongue remains firmly in cheek: From the brassy accompanying cover of “Viva Las Vegas” to the bright, satirical gloss of the visuals, he’s soliciting more smirks than screams.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2021

The reason for sketching this process out in such gristly, unpleasant detail is that there remains a significant body of opinion that is convinced people put themselves through all this for a laugh.

From The Guardian Mar. 23, 2021

Its gristly nose was subsiding into its skull hole.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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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