gristly
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A great bowl of pho requires 14 hours of charring and simmering with loads of bone marrow, and a superior soup uses toppings of high-quality cuts of beef that aren’t sinewy or gristly, he added.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024
There is strength in it, and cleverness and nearly unbearable honesty, yet the enduring aftertaste of such gristly tidbits produces little more than an intense desire to give Ball a big hug.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2022
The patty is tasteless and perhaps a little gristly.
From Salon • May 14, 2022
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
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