Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of gristle; tough.

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Examples

  • BLOCK: And Peter Sloma (ph) of Fish Creek, Wisconsin had this to say: While so much of the rest of the news media is destroying any potential we have left for rational public discourse, NPR has made the choice of joining in by serving up this bleeding, gristled hunk of red meat - and over and over again, at that.

    Letters: The Florida Pastor And 'No Crying In Baseball' 2010

  • I now leave you with a recipe for this dish, which through hard work and culinary ingenuity catapults a cut of gristled beef from its rough-hewn, lowly beginnings to delectable and iconic heights.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Homesick Texan 2007

  • I now leave you with a recipe for this dish, which through hard work and culinary ingenuity catapults a cut of gristled beef from its rough-hewn, lowly beginnings to delectable and iconic heights.

    Independence and chicken-fried steak | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • I figured Tommy Lee Jones would be playing his usual gristled, tough sheriff.

    Movies, Ice Cream & the GIMP 2008

  • A rather gristled point to make to the face of an 84 y.o. man, but Carter took it in stride.

    "How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?" Ann Althouse 2008

  • Then she knelt in the folds of the white nightgown, fabric endlessly laundered, beaten with swirled soap, left gristled and stiff.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Then she knelt in the folds of the white nightgown, fabric endlessly laundered, beaten with swirled soap, left gristled and stiff.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Then she knelt in the folds of the white nightgown, fabric endlessly laundered, beaten with swirled soap, left gristled and stiff.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • You could practically hear the sound of the gristled New York press corps rolling its eyes.

    American Beat: A Media Puppet Show 2007

  • The stocky, fair-haired farmer ran his gristled, work-worn hand over his tanned and troubled face.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

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