bristly

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I've gone through and removed some of the bristly "flavour" language.

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Quick take

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

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adjective

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

adjective

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bristly.

adjective

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

adjective

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"

Example sentences

I've gone through and removed some of the bristly "flavour" language.

Or rather, because I have both a bristly beard and sensitive skin.

I get bristly about programmers who behave the same way.

My response was a bit over-bristly, though, sorry.

" Kristow's hand went back over his short, bristly hair, making a dry, whispery sound.

And OmniFocus seems about as bristly and rough a program as I've ever seen.

Even if it works for them, people can be awfully bristly about health and lifestyle practices when it comes from someone they don't know.

You might find the Linux kernel mailing list fairly bristly, but what about the mailing list for the database query library that you use?

She was a bit bristly at times with other staff, but ... there was a pretty noticeable decline in staff behaviour, sheving, cleanliness and overall experience at the store within a couple weeks of her leaving, and it's never quite recovered.

If you want to have inclusive economic and political institutions, you need to pair that with an extremely bristly population to make China's strategies economically unviable.