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- adverb In a
bristling manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That voracious leg-trap had Wilf himself as choreographer at forward short-leg organising the bristlingly athletic Monmouthites Allan Watkins and Phil Clift.
Madcap Wilf Wooller created my Glamorgan angst | Frank Keating 2011
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Three years earlier it had been a totally different kettle of contest, as Colin Meads's All Blacks were waiting for Dawes's men as bristlingly bellicose as ever, with 18 wins in their previous 21 Tests.
Des Connor's 1971 Lions-bait remains absolutely priceless | Frank Keating 2011
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Jeep's Wrangler Ultimate is a bristlingly macho, red neck stereotype all of its own.
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He could have kept going, over Hardknott Pass, over towards the Lakes, but all the locals tell me he would have known how exposed he'd be on that barren high drive: and he'd heard the helicopter, ever since it was picking up bristlingly armed nuclear police from the top of Sellafield at around the time he was killing Susan Hughes.
Derrick Bird: dangerous thoughts about the trigger inside that will forever haunt Cumbria 2010
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His journey, an expressionistic portrayal of Life Under Capitalism, is enacted with the coarseness and verve of high-quality poster art and accompanied by a bristlingly clever score whose idiom morphs from hard-edged minimalism to pastiche pop balladry and back again.
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Here Barack Obama accuses John McCain of pushing a "radical" health care plan, and instead of grabbing the chance to don a scarlet "R," the would-be change agents of the McCain campaign bristlingly respond with business-as-usual.
Michael L. Millenson: McCain's Health Care Plan Radically Irresponsible 2008
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I broached this thought to Fulo Machado (a former Castroite now bristlingly anti-Castro), the cabstand co-dispatcher and a close friend of contract agent Chuck Rogers.
American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995
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Delia asked the bristlingly jealous knights around her.
In the Hand of the Goddess Camora Pierce 1984
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Delia asked the bristlingly jealous knights around her.
In the Hand of the Goddess Camora Pierce 1984
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Delia asked the bristlingly jealous knights around her.
In the Hand of the Goddess Camora Pierce 1984
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