grizzled
Americanadjective
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having gray or partly gray hair.
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gray or partly gray.
adjective
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streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous
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having grey or partly grey hair
Other Word Forms
- ungrizzled adjective
Etymology
Origin of grizzled
Example Sentences
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It was a grizzled 20-something with experience playing against grown men.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
Duvall often said his favorite role, however, was one he played in a 1989 TV mini-series -- the grizzled, wise-cracking Texas Ranger-turned-cowboy Augustus McCrae in "Lonesome Dove," based on the novel by Larry McMurtry.
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
His run-haul set him on the way to being one of the great leaders of the modern era, but he already looked a grizzled leader when taking the reins at 22.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025
On the same March 3 morning, the county asked for help identifying a wisp-thin elderly man with a grizzled beard and swollen black eye who’d been found in Monterey Park’s Edison Trails Park.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2025
He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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