Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
1 The bristly ridge of its chine showed black against the red west.
2 His long arms almost strangled me; his bristly mustache scratched my cheek.
3 They were still comically stiff-legged and bristly as they aloofly sniffed noses.
4 His pocked cheeks and bristly dome would enhance his gaunt, sinister mien.
5 Lou's thin face reddened up to the roots of his bristly hair.
6 Then I notice bristly hairs on my fingers that weren't there before.
7 Gilhaelith strode out, the mustard-coloured, mustard-stained robes flapping about his bristly shanks.
8 Clean-shaven, he had bristly dark hair that lay close to his scalp.
9 He reached out and ran one hand across its bristly surface.
10 Some found him too bristly but I liked him, Surratt said.
11 Cayrol was confused; he twisted his bristly beard with his fingers.
12 He put the envelope to his bristly lips and kissed it.
13 Watching her, Tristan's father ran his hand over his bristly jaw.
14 They were all legs and teeth and bristly fur, the meat almost inedible.
15 Whereas the tapir has a hog-like skin, the ant-bear has long, bristly hairs.
16 Allie collected ash in her long eyelashes and eyebrows and short, bristly hair.
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