gristly

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gristly
Adjective
  • In this case: a stringy slot corner who never had been credited for a sack in his college career.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Certain digestive disorders can lead to soft, stringy stool.
    Cristina Mutchler, Health, 8 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In the rare occurrence of distress, it might be caused by an intestinal blockage due to consuming the large, fibrous leaves.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2024
  • In 2024, all the best independent horror games are rooted in the original PlayStation’s fibrous, lo-fi textures and long-nosed polygons.
    Ashley Bardhan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • As tourists stumble by with tall cans of Bud Light Lime and cigarettes in hand, Sell’s tattooed, sinewy limbs stretch a matching Lacoste tee and shorts, with the requisite crocodile emblems and matching bright-red shoes.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • And Abercrombie was shunned for its use of sinewy, overwhelmingly white models and for selling T-shirts that were decidedly racist.
    Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The earliest figures, naked and missing limbs, some suffering gouges or pocked with what look like the holes of beetle larvae, bring to mind eerie tales of automata or the leathery agonies of bog bodies.
    Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Making her first appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, the up-and-comer chose a leathery dress made of dark maroon panels that left a cutout pattern along the side.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2023

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“Gristly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gristly. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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