Grizzled
['grɪz(ə)ld]
Definition
(a.) Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Grayish, grizzly.
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Examples
- It was abandoned as soon as tried, and he wore his grizzled hair cut short. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- One was fat, with mustachios, and the other was lean and long, in a blue frock-coat, with a brown face and a grizzled head. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His broad, grizzled head, with its shining patch of baldness, was in the immediate foreground of our vision. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His hair, too, as he swept off his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin upon the top. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled moustache. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- His head has grizzled since we saw him last, and a line or two of silver may be seen in the soft brown hair likewise. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual smell of drink. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was simply what the porter described as a medium-looking chap, a man of fifty, beard grizzled, pale face, quietly dressed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A man, I grieve to say, grown old and grizzled in the service of the world. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His hair was grizzled, and many a passion and feeling of his youth had grown grey in that interval. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A minute later we heard steps upon the stairs, and an elderly red-faced man with grizzled side-whiskers was ushered in. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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