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• s  very irritable
  bristly exchanges between the White House and the press
• s  having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
  a horse with a short bristly mane
  bristly shrubs

• It is covered with white polyethylene molded into bristly triangles and slick circles.
• It could entirely demolish the idea of a tree, replacing it with something more akin to a thick, bristly bush.
• John Kieran is short, wiry, grey, bristly and brilliant.

• prickly
• splenetic
• waspish
• barbed
• barbellate
• briary
• briery
• bristled
• burred
• burry
• setose
• setaceous
• spiny
• thorny

News & Articles

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• Shaw right man in right place at right time
  Winning goal in 3rd OT of Game 1 caps an exhausting night Early in what would be the longest night of anyone's recent hockey life, Andrew Shaw sized things up. The bristly, fearless Blackhawks antagonizer went face-to-torso with the Bruins' Zdeno Chara while crashing to the net, pushing and shoving with the 6-foot-9 defenseman, giving up about a foot but nothing else.        
  June 13, 2013 - Chicago Tribune

Quotes

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• Paul Giamatti in Canada.com
  When I think of Barney, he's coming up as a heavy, bristly hairbrush,says Giamatti, with an audible smile.
• Michael Musto in CBS News
  I have every certainty that The Donald will appear on 'The View' and it will be the highest rated episode of 'The View' in history,Musto said. "And they will pretend to make up. Rosie will still be a little bristly, Donald still be a...