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bristliness

/bris-lee/US // ˈbrɪs li //

刚性,刚毅,刚强性,刚毅性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    bris·tli·er, bris·tli·est.

    • : covered or rough with bristles.
    • : like or resembling bristles.
    • : easily antagonized; irascible: a bristly person with few friends.

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Examples

  • His hair is less gray than it is now, less bristly, more floppy.

  • The hair was stiff and bristly, and stood out in every direction, while the beard matched it in growth and quantity.

  • Clark glanced down at his own shabby clothes and rubbed a rough, bristly chin.

  • His muzzle is thick and long; his eyebrows are rough and bristly: his ears black, and almost naked.

  • There are two tufts of hair, of a bright yellow, below the ears, and another tuft of bristly hair upon the top of the head.

  • They were all legs and teeth and bristly fur, the meat almost inedible.