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Stubbled

Stubbled \Stub"bled\, a.

  1. Covered with stubble.

    A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain.
    --Gay.

  2. Stubbed; as, stubbled legs. [Obs.]
    --Skelton.

Wiktionary
stubbled

a. Covered in stubble; stubbly.

WordNet
stubbled

adj. having a short growth of beard; "his stubbled chin" [syn: bestubbled, stubbly]

Usage examples of "stubbled".

Before the rain commenced, Bowie had heard sounds of the town, but now there was only the smacking of the wind-driven rain against the shocks of old wheat around him and its clatter on the stubbled earth.

Then he was silent a moment, his mouth pursing in and out as he stroked his stubbled chin and studied Wiki with sideways looks.

Chaven to move to the door and invite in young Millward and his stubbled comrade, both of whom looked more nervous to be in the queens bedroom than if they had faced an armed foe.

Leibnitz commented, stroking his stubbled lip in a kind of subconscious mourning for his vanished beard, while Sara made an undervoiced comment of her own in the front seat.

The chestnut whuffed and sidestepped away from the road and into the stubbled grainfield, backing away from the hedgerow that seemed to start with the scrubby willows.

He strode to the corner and replaced the wire around the big man's throat with one hand, the muzzle of the automa­tic against the stubbled jaw.

We shall do the same: we shall not attempt to give the reader any idea of that tetrahedron nose, of that horseshoe mouth, of that little left eye, stubbled up with an eyebrow of carrotty bristles, while the right was completely overwhelmed and buried by an enormous wen.

Leaving the burglar chain engaged, she peered out to see Harley Fist, swaying on his feet, his eyes red-rimmed, his face sullen and stubbled, a livid bruise discoloring one side of his chin and jaw.

A man emerged from a door, pulling a big wig down over his stubbled scalp.

There was a small, dirty, glass-walled office in the corner and a short man sat there with a derby hat on the back of his head and a red tie under his stubbled chin.

Each whore's name was murmured in throaty voiceover, along with a superimposed facial: coy little girls, dominatrixes, stubbled stallions and a few from cultural stock that was completely alien to me.

In fog and a damp cold on the Day of the Dead he stood in a stubbled field between the ancient Rhodian high road to Trakesia and the southernmost edgings of the infinitely more ancient forest and fell to his knees at what he saw on the road when the mist parted.

He set the phone back, weighed the death shell in his palm, went to the back door, walked out into the muddy lot in the freezing rain, and threw the shell as far out into the stubbled cornfield as he could.

His thick yellow hair was uncombed, his jaw beard stubbled, his eyes red-rimmed.

His thick yellow hair was uncombed, and his jaw beard stubbled, his eyes red-rimmed.