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bristlingly

adv. In a bristling manner.

Usage examples of "bristlingly".

Now, remember--" "You made your cracks that you would cross this quarantine line," interrupted Ullmer, bristlingly, "and I want you to find out your mistake.

We can be so bristlingly savage that other nations may fear to attack us.

The guards were bristlingly attentive at first, then gradu­ally seemed to grow bored.

The guards were bristlingly attentive at first, then gradu-ally seemed to grow bored.

I broached this thought to Fulo Machado (a former Castroite now bristlingly anti-Castro), the cabstand co-dispatcher and a close friend of contract agent Chuck Rogers.