Thesaurus / hairy
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This animal was something like a little boy, only, instead of clothes, he was covered with hairy fur.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMThe hairy animal, with the long tail, came straight for the bush behind which Squinty was hiding, and crawled through.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMHe had a loose hairy benignant face with a humorous but penetrating eye and the usual domelike brow.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONThey bore my friends away on their hairy-naked shoulders, and I stood too shocked to say a word.
VALLEY OF THE CROENLEE TARBELLInstead of pulling Mrs. Yoop's hair, he perched on her shoulder and smoothed her soft cheek with his hairy paw.
THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZL. FRANK BAUMHe had hair on his head, a long-peaked beard, and about the breast was exceeding hairy and rough.
EAST ANGLIAJ. EWING RITCHIESome, covered with a hairy and glutinous seaweed, seemed like large green moles boring a way into the rock.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOShe is betrayed in the usual manner, and finds, when too late, that she is embracing a hairy incubus which has a long tail.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMANIt might be supposed that so hairy an animal as the yak would become dirty and unkempt.
MOUNT EVEREST THE RECONNAISSANCE, 1921CHARLES KENNETH HOWARD-BURYMappo took her up in one of his strong hairy arms, and, very luckily he picked her right-side up.
MAPPO, THE MERRY MONKEYRICHARD BARNUMWORDS RELATED TO HAIRY
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- awesome
- awful
- chilling
- daunting
- dire
- direful
- dismaying
- disquieting
- dread
- dreadful
- fearful
- fearsome
- formidable
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- grabber
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- horrifying
- inconceivable
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- petrifying
- portentous
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- terrible
- terrifying
- traumatic
- unnerving
- unspeakable
- attentive
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- courageous
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- courtly
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- fire-eating
- game
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- polite
- quixotic
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- thoughtful
- urbane
- valiant
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- backbreaking
- bothersome
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- complicated
- demanding
- difficile
- distressing
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- exacting
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- grinding
- hairy
- heavy
- herculean
- intricate
- involved
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- knotty
- labored
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- mean
- merciless
- murder
- onerous
- operose
- rigorous
- rough
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- scabrous
- serious
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- slavish
- sticky
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- terrible
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- toilful
- toilsome
- tough
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- unsparing
- uphill
- uphill battle
- wearing
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- grinding
- hairy
- heavy
- herculean
- intricate
- involved
- irksome
- knotty
- labored
- laborious
- mean
- merciless
- murder
- onerous
- operose
- rigorous
- rough
- rugged
- scabrous
- serious
- severe
- slavish
- sticky
- strenuous
- terrible
- tiring
- toilful
- toilsome
- tough
- troublesome
- unsparing
- uphill
- uphill battle
- wearing
- wearisome
- wearying
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