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grizzle

[griz-uhl] / ˈgrɪz əl /


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There’s spots of gray grizzle visible on his chin.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2023

But if he must, he’ll give it more sizzle than grizzle — for you.

From New York Times Apr. 30, 2020

With “Hands of Stone,” Robert De Niro officially enters his Burgess Meredith-in-“Rocky” phase, bringing the ringside grizzle and rumpled gravitas by the pound.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2016

Like a middle-aged heartthrob, Koko has a graceful grey grizzle around the mouth now, and Woss says his leading man will not take on any more films.

From The Guardian Feb. 9, 2012

I remember running with her towards the fence, the baby starting to wake and to grizzle a little.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

She brings a change in tone compared with her grizzled predecessors, like Leo Gerard, the union’s longest-serving president.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

One day their grizzled manager, Casey Stengel, said: “Can’t anyone here play this game?”

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

"As a crime viewer, I've had enough of troubled, grizzled detectives in the wilderness battling their demons," he said.

From BBC May 19, 2026

The singer himself told The Times in 1992 that the album’s hit ballad, in which a grizzled narrator blubbers over the one that got away, “had a real strong emotional peak on the record.”

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

A dark, grizzled man with a face that looked as though a war might have been fought over its craggy terrain stood at his desk a moment later.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

No matter that the Aberdonian shot a final-day 67 when the rest of the field were moaning and grizzling like bairns about the long grass.

From The Guardian Oct. 1, 2012

Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Call it grumbling, griping, grizzling, grouching – take your pick.

From The Guardian Jul. 20, 2012

Urbane, well-built, his face framed with grizzling hair, he is famed for two characteristics-his impeccable courtesy, his freedom from mannerism.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

Then my three younger brothers set up their own grizzling chorus about how unfair it was that they didn’t get paid for anything.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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