stubbly

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Adjective
  • While not explicitly gay, one particularly faggy (complimentary) element of the project for me was an image of a crowd marveling in awe at the Bronzi di Riace — two bronze statues of buff, bearded, and of course, nude, Greek soldiers.
    Ludwig Hurtado, Them., 29 Sep. 2025
  • One presented a bearded face while the other a non-bearded one.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • His paranoia, played with clumsy charm by a mustachioed and bleary-eyed Leonardo DiCaprio, is half-cocked and somewhat comical.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Stubbly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stubbly. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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