Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having whiskers.
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- adjective Having
whiskers
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- adjective having hair on the cheeks and chin
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Examples
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He is a kind of bewhiskered Sir Galahad who goes in quest of Trilby instead of the Holy Grail, and having found her, sits down on her bed and cheers her up while she kisses and caresses him.
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In 1919 the Washington Post applauded "serious cleaning up" of "bewhiskered, ranting, howling, mentally warped, law-defying aliens" and "international misfits," and in subsequent generations we find parallel support for official, well-muscled efforts to make us feel safe by finding an internal enemy that can be attacked.
Michael Roth: Review of Jay Feldman's Manufacturing Hysteria Michael Roth 2011
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The picture of the bewhiskered trio, as he had last seen them, mulcted of four dollars and ninety cents and a ferry ticket, made him chuckle.
Chapter 34 2010
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The bewhiskered individual, who looked like a Scotsman, had the Teutonic name of Von Blix, and spoke with a strong American accent.
Chapter 14 2010
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Next he noticed a bewhiskered, youthful-looking man, sitting at a roll-top desk, who regarded him curiously.
Chapter 33 2010
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In 1919 the Washington Post applauded "serious cleaning up" of "bewhiskered, ranting, howling, mentally warped, law-defying aliens" and "international misfits," and in subsequent generations we find parallel support for official, well-muscled efforts to make us feel safe by finding an internal enemy that can be attacked.
Michael Roth: Review of Jay Feldman's Manufacturing Hysteria Michael Roth 2011
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While most of the pictured scientists are bewhiskered men, there are a few women in the set.
Science Maxine 2009
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Trips to the library revealed that the bewhiskered, barefoot man Id fi rst seen looking out at me from the framed newspaper report, Henry James Stuart, was the builder, and he was anything but a hermit.
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During this period he experimented with a comic character, the bewhiskered Willie Work.
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If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat.
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