grizzled

[ griz-uhld ]

adjective

1. having gray or partly gray hair.
2. gray or partly gray.

grizzled

/ ˈɡrɪzəld /

adjective

1. streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous
2. having grey or partly grey hair

Other Words From

• un·grizzled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of grizzled¹

1350–1400; Middle English. See grizzle ¹, -ed ³

Example Sentences

He warned against counting the Red Sox out, the kind of thing a front-office executive says to a grizzled baseball city to head off frustration — even though grizzled baseball cities usually see right through that.

From Washington Post

Next day, DSK was perp-walking his way, haggard and grizzled, into infamy.

From The Daily Beast

As his grizzled snout suggests, Orlando is 11 years old, which translates to 77 in dog years.

From The Daily Beast

And Ford delivers another impressive performance as the hard-ass, take-no-prisoners colonel; like a hardened, grizzled Han Solo.

From The Daily Beast

An unlikely partnership between a grizzled detective and a highly evolved android proves particularly fruitful.

From The Daily Beast

Boyle by then was a grizzled veteran of amphibious landings, having witnessed four of them in the Mediterranean Theater.

From The Daily Beast

The old man, grizzled, tanned and seamed, leant weakly against the parapet.

From Project Gutenberg

He went out by another door, almost as the grizzled sergeant came in and stood still, looking at the master of the homestead.

From Project Gutenberg

A beard, narrow and grizzled and stained, rested on his lean front, or stirred gently in the breeze.

From Project Gutenberg

"I really think it was just the neatest thing that I ever did in that line," said the grizzled old Captain Gapsill.

From Project Gutenberg

Wiping his chin inexpertly with the back of a grizzled hand, he looked up and eyed his visitor interrogatively.

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