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Definition of bristly : Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

Synonyms:

setose, pungent, burry, bristled, briery, lienal, armed, biting, setaceous, splenic, splenetic, briary, barbellate, mordacious, waspish, burred, ill-natured, nipping

rough, sinewy, coarse, ruffled, rugged, knurled, stubbled, ragged, scuffed, rumpled, scratchy, gnarled

needle-point, sagittal, spear-like, cutting, prickly, thorny, spiky, jagged, barbed, sharp, thistly, keen, pointed, acute, needle-like, spinous, spiked, spiny, razor-edged, pointy

Usage examples:

• He stood now, not really grinning at me, but with an amused look under that bristly mustache, and suggested, " So you haven't seen young Gilbert?" - "The Million-Dollar Suitcase", Alice MacGowan Perry Newberry.
• Thick bristly black hair parted mathematically in the middle drooped on either side of his forehead above a pair of snappy black eyes and rather bulbous nose. - "McAllister and His Double", Arthur Train.
• Her face is quite white, and her hair so black and drawn off her forehead, and she has a bristly moustache. - "The Visits of Elizabeth", Elinor Glyn.