Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Partly gray or streaked with gray.
- adjective Having fur or hair streaked or tipped with gray.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gray; of a mixed color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
grizzle . - adjective Greyed, old
- adjective Grey or partly grey ^1
- adjective Streaked or mixed with grey;
grizzly ;griseous ^2
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having dark hairs mixed with grey or white
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Examples
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But Rove's rise to a big White House office and now his role guiding $50 million in corporate-directed dollars through an ad hoc group called America's Crossroads has made him a scion of a conservative elite, an expert on the playbook of politics who met his match in a "grizzled" -- Rove's own word -- leather-jacket wearing Vietnam vet named Russ Murphy, leader of the Glenn Beck-inspired Delaware 9-12 Patriots.
Will Bunch: Karl Rove and the Tea Party: What Really Happened 2010
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But Rove's rise to a big White House office and now his role guiding $50 million in corporate-directed dollars through an ad hoc group called America's Crossroads has made him a scion of a conservative elite, an expert on the playbook of politics who met his match in a "grizzled" -- Rove's own word -- leather-jacket wearing Vietnam vet named Russ Murphy, leader of the Glenn Beck-inspired Delaware 9-12 Patriots.
Will Bunch: Karl Rove and the Tea Party: What Really Happened 2010
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But Rove's rise to a big White House office and now his role guiding $50 million in corporate-directed dollars through an ad hoc group called America's Crossroads has made him a scion of a conservative elite, an expert on the playbook of politics who met his match in a "grizzled" -- Rove's own word -- leather-jacket wearing Vietnam vet named Russ Murphy, leader of the Glenn Beck-inspired Delaware 9-12 Patriots.
Will Bunch: Karl Rove and the Tea Party: What Really Happened 2010
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But Rove's rise to a big White House office and now his role guiding $50 million in corporate-directed dollars through an ad hoc group called America's Crossroads has made him a scion of a conservative elite, an expert on the playbook of politics who met his match in a "grizzled" -- Rove's own word -- leather-jacket wearing Vietnam vet named Russ Murphy, leader of the Glenn Beck-inspired Delaware 9-12 Patriots.
Will Bunch: Karl Rove and the Tea Party: What Really Happened 2010
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But Rove's rise to a big White House office and now his role guiding $50 million in corporate-directed dollars through an ad hoc group called America's Crossroads has made him a scion of a conservative elite, an expert on the playbook of politics who met his match in a "grizzled" -- Rove's own word -- leather-jacket wearing Vietnam vet named Russ Murphy, leader of the Glenn Beck-inspired Delaware 9-12 Patriots.
Will Bunch: Karl Rove and the Tea Party: What Really Happened 2010
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You'd no more refer to one of these seasoned TV stevedores a 'videographer' than you'd call a grizzled homicide detective a 'rent-a-cop'.
Viewfinder BLUES 2010
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And the fact manager Martin Johnson, who captained England to a World Cup final win over Australia in Sydney five years ago, has recalled grizzled prop Phil Vickery and selected lock Tom Palmer indicates the regard he has for the set-piece.
Taipei Times 2008
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And even more ridiculously, Blagg's inclusion makes 16 year old Tom Daley (who competes on Wednesday) look like some kind of grizzled veteran.
Commonwealth Games day seven - as it happened Scott Anthony 2010
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First, and most potently, as James Bond; second, as the embodiment of a certain kind of grizzled wisdom, of which perhaps the most notable is Indiana Jones's father.
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The hair on a grizzly's back and shoulders often has white tips, lending it a "grizzled" appearance.
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