Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bewhiskered
Adjective
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An elderly, white-bearded man clutched a walking staff, like an urban Gandalf, disseminating wise vibes.—
Brian Barth,
Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2026 -
Sallae Mae casts a flirty glance at the sweaty, bearded man who's called out to her the loudest.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Charlie laughs, but there is something like embarrassment, or unease, on his middle-aged, mustachioed face.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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Golden light reflects off Murano chandeliers above the exquisite marble bar where mustachioed mixologists craft impeccable Sazeracs and Penicillins.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Cowley conceived of the American tradition, dating back to the eighteenth century, as analogous to, say, that of the French: a comprehensible sequence of geographic and aesthetic developments, not the mere littering of hirsute eccentrics that it was typically taken to be.—
Vince Passaro,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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By documenting lushly hirsute Japanese officials alongside their beardless counterparts, portraiture preserved a photographic record of colonial subjects’ visibly inferior status.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike typical mice with short gray-brown coats, these woolly mice have long dirty-blond hair that mimics the shaggy fur that helped protect mammoths from the Arctic cold.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
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Fisher accessorized with oversized sunglasses, point-toe heels, and a small brown handbag, wearing her long tresses in beachy waves with shaggy fringe.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Bewhiskered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewhiskered. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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