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adj. Consisting of or similar to bristles.

adj. Thick with bristles.

adj. Exhibiting or tending to exhibit agitation or anger: a bristly exchange between lawyers.

adj. Covered with bristles.

adj. Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

Thickly set with bristles, or with hairs like bristles; rough: as, “a bristly neck,”

Resembling a bristle or bristles.

adj. very irritable

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

"It was a startling assembly, not the least because with a few faintly yellow exceptions, the vroqupii were clad in short, bristly, rose-hued fur."

ill-natured    armed   

smooth   

rough    setaceous    strigose    strigate    setulose    hispid    setose    scrubby    horrent    hairy   

scraggly    stubbly    iron-gray    close-cut    flaxen    square-cut    graying    grizzle    downy    upswept