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to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
the kind of person who wouldn't be happy if she didn't have something to grizzle about
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Recent Examples of grizzled
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
At 14 years old, Candy Crush is a grizzled veteran, a heritage brand up against a thousand young upstarts.
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Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2026
The neo-futurist storyline showcases Terry McGinnis as Batman, often with the guidance of a much older and grizzled Bruce Wayne.
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James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
The compelling narrative is certainly there — the second overall pick who wins an early Cup as a kid in Pittsburgh, then waits 17 long years to get another, this time as the grizzled captain.
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Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
At 14 years old, Candy Crush is a grizzled veteran, a heritage brand up against a thousand young upstarts.
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Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
Verb
Its songs felt engineered for a highly distinct mood, and his voice, a husky brooding tone that was grizzled by Auto-Tune, functioned more as another instrument in the mix than typical vocals.
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Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2026
The neo-futurist storyline showcases Terry McGinnis as Batman, often with the guidance of a much older and grizzled Bruce Wayne.
—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grizzled
Adjective
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Clichés and hoary tropes abound.
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Fourth walls are shattered, hoary tropes are dismantled, the body count climbs and a joke gets thrown in about the endless supply of Wayanses ready to keep the franchise going.
Verb
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By early 1775, Quebec’s governor complained that this letter was stirring up the population by planting dangerous doubts about British imperial authority.
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Smith has long complained that Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau, hindered the province’s energy industry and fueled separatist sentiment.
Adjective
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Terms like graupel, rime ice, and hoar frost describe specific ways ice and frost form on surfaces and in the air.
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The hidden layer of fragile surface hoar, with facets playing a contributing role, is now the failure point for large and unpredictable slabs of snow.
Verb
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Police said that after the girl screamed, the video shows a man getting into his vehicle and driving away.
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Thompson screamed at the MTA worker before grabbing her and slashing on the left side of her nose, just below her eye, according to prosecutors.
Adjective
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As previously reported by PEOPLE, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force, the incident occurred on Tuesday, June 23, in Staniel Cay, a small, sandy island in the Exuma Cays.
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Think sandy feet, long lunches, morning coffee with the Pacific.
Verb
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Bat met ball and, under his breath, Astros manager Joe Espada muttered an expletive.
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In the shadows of the long-hut, the elders muttered among themselves—of portents and crops and weather and the storage of grain.
Adjective
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One of the details described the placement of Guthrie's Apple Watch with a white wrist band that was left on the floor next to her bed.
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Paltrow wore a black, strapless gown and buckled slippers, while Martin sported a two-tone brown-and-blue sweater over a white T-shirt, with brown corduroy pants and a stylishly thin belt.
Verb
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Traffic hummed and whined on I-85.
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Second, in a report of their own, the pro-business commissioners whined that all of this was unfair.
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“Grizzled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grizzled. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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