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bristly

('br/i/sl/i/ )

adjective (a)

Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.(adjective)

source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

very irritable(adj.all)

Example:
Bristly exchanges between the White House and the press.

Synonym:
prickly, splenetic, waspish

source: wordnet30
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.(adj.all)

Example:
A horse with a short bristly mane.
Bristly shrubs.

Synonym:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny

source: wordnet30

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