My inclination is to get bristly with the person doing the pitching.

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Madh means a bushy moustache, posht is a moustache hanging down at the ends and fshes is a long broom-like moustache with bristly hairs.

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Minnie is unfazed by Ruth's bristly sense of humor, and the pair share confidences while Ruth reminisces about a childhood stay in town with her family.

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"There were several people here at the 'Hutch' who were thinking about starting a company around using yeast in drug discovery, " says Hartwell, a calm-spoken man with a bristly gray mustache.

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Unlike the sham philosophies of the defunct North African dictators, the Islamic Republic was founded on a bristly Islamism that even now commands millions of adherents, especially among the pious poor.

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Having ventured out of the United States precisely once (and then only to Tijuana), she was posted first to India and then to Ceylon, where she met a bristly aesthete ten years her senior named Paul Child.

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Cranes will rise in Barcelona, New York, Jerusalem, Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi, Paris and other world centers to construct glass sails, wavy monoliths, bristly multiheaded towers and other alter-the-skyline-forever structures designed by a spectacled, white-haired 78-year-old working out of a bullpen with cardboard furniture in West Los Angeles.

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