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bristly

/'brisli/

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adjective
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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"a horse with a short bristly mane" "bristly shrubs"

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barbed barbellate briary briery bristled burred burry prickly setaceous setose spiny thorny armed
adjective
very irritable
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"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"

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prickly splenetic waspish ill-natured

Examples of bristly

"a horse with a short bristly mane"
"bristly shrubs"
"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"