close-trimmed

She has close-trimmed, unpolished fingernails and her white coat hangs open over khaki pants and a plain navy turtleneck.

Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

Distinguished by his close-trimmed Van Dyke beard and cultivated bearing, Smythe was the most eminent of a breed of characters who had begun to appear on the American political scene in the 1890s and might best be described as water evangelists.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Distinguished by his close-trimmed Van Dyke beard and cultivated bearing, Smythe was the most eminent of a breed of characters who had begun to appear on the American political scene in the 1890s and might best be described as water evangelists.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

And Joshua, an earnest Long Island Quaker kid with a close-trimmed, pious-seeming red beard, who played guitar and protested apartheid, which I pretended to be concerned about, too, although I wasn't certain what it was.

Anis Shivani: Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy" 2009

I'm 53, male, hairy though the hairline is sliding down my back AND have a full though close-trimmed beard, NOT physically fit, and straight.

a 'Bed Day' and my gift Elizabeth McClung 2008

Thin face, nice smile, close-trimmed goatee, curled brown hair.

31st December '05 2005

He had a short, close-trimmed beard, and was one of those nothing-particular-looking old chaps.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

A close-trimmed, pointed beard did not hide the firm chin and the clean-cut mouth.

The Metal Monster 2004

He wore a short, close-trimmed, dark beard that always seemed to be split by a smile made all the brighter by his twinkling blue eyes.

Dragon's Kin McCaffrey, Anne 2003

At twenty-nine, Kevin Riley looked far older than the young man Kirk had hired as his chief of staff, due in part to the close-trimmed golden brown beard that hid a baby face.

A Flag Full of Stars Brad Ferguson 2000