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Bristly Moderate

Bristly has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

very irritable

"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"

"he became prickly and spiteful"

"witty and waspish about his colleagues"

2

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

"a horse with a short bristly mane"

"bristly shrubs"

"burred fruits"

"setaceous whiskers"

3

Covered with bristles.

Example Sentences
"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press" adjective
"he became prickly and spiteful" adjective
"witty and waspish about his colleagues" adjective
"a horse with a short bristly mane" adjective
"bristly shrubs" adjective
"burred fruits" adjective
"setaceous whiskers" adjective
See Also
pilifer bristles bristliness setiferous awny bristling medusahead irascible
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
hotly antly nutly aptly fatly wetly fitly catly artly costly wistly daftly softly raptly fastly deftly meetly nettly tectly shitly
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