Bristly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BRISTLY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• stiffly erect
• (of hair or foliage) having a stiff and prickly texture
• covered with short, stiff hairs
• Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
• very irritable
• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Words related to BRISTLY

birsy10 bristle9 bristlier11 bristliest12

How to use BRISTLY in a sentence

• He was led to this theory first, by observing at school that a boy of a stiff, bristly head of hair, was remarkably cruel.
• Above this the ridge weathers away to a thin knife-blade for a few hundred yards, and thence to the summit of the range it carries a bristly mane of chaparral.
• He was several years older than the first arrival, his hair being slightly frosted, his eyebrows bristly, and his whiskers cut back from his cheeks.
• A bristly pig carrying a bell about his neck, ran wildly up and down the grassy slope in search of chestnuts.
• Her face is quite white, and her hair so black and drawn off her forehead, and she has a bristly moustache.
• He would allow me to take him up in my hands and stroke him, and yet not retire into his bristly shell.
• Opposite sits another French gentleman, with beard and bristly hair.
• They are either smooth or variously hairy or bristly, and are always destitute of the regular scales with which fishes are generally invested.
• No fires have swept over the hills and left behind them the desolation of a bristly landscape.
• The dogs were endeavouring to enter a thicket, in the midst of which Fritz declared he had caught a glimpse of an animal larger than the buffalo, with a black, bristly skin.
• But that beard! That bristly, thick, square beard of a stranger! His hands remembered it.
• It was the ordinary car of a Southern railroad, and leaning his head against the harsh, bristly plush of the seat, he had before him the usual examples of Southern passengers.
• One by one they returned from the forest to the trysting-place, carrying with them the shaggy fell of the bear, the bristly boar-skin, and the grey pelt of the wolf.
• He had the size of his father and the bristly coat of his mother.
• He was a tall, wiry, strong man, with a bald head and bristly red beard, which, however, was cut off from his upper and under lip.
• The doe is a little smaller, and has little black bristly knobs where the horns of the buck are.
• In the courtyard Nekhludoff met an officer with bristly moustaches, and asked for the assistant-inspector.
• They wore helmets made to resemble the heads of ferocious wild beasts, crested with bristly hair or surmounted by bright feather plumes.
• His perpetual squint and bristly, short beard were a great injustice to him.
• He was seated on his hind legs, gazing up at the moon with his fine warm coat all bristly, scoffing and scoffing.
• Here Honoria to avoid hearing something she could not forgive put her plump hand over his bristly mouth.

Similar words containing BRIST without suffix ly

bristle9 bristol9 bristled11 bristles10 bristols10 bristlier11 bristling12 hubristic16 hybristic19 tenebrist11 bristliest12 tenebrists12 bristlecone15 bristlelike17 bristletail13 bristliness13 equilibrist22 verslibrist16 bristlecones16 bristletails14 equilibrists23 verslibriste17 verslibrists17 bristlinesses15 equilibristic26 hubristically23 verslibristes18

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