: sprinkled or streaked with gray : graying
a grizzled beard
also
: having gray hair
a grizzled veteran
Examples of grizzled in a Sentence
He had thinning hair and a grizzled beard.
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Michael Loria, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
And it’s paid off; Laymon notes that several people are surprised to see his name in the end credits and even more shocked to realize that the grizzled man sporting scruffy stubble is Stewart.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
Here, Mitchell is a grizzled, reclusive homebody who prefers puzzles to people, and who must suddenly reckon with both, in the outside world.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Mulgrew and Rhames are reliably great, and Marin Ireland takes the grizzled cop archetype to new levels of surliness, but the cast is left to carry too heavy a bag.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for grizzled
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“Grizzled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grizzled. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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grizzled
adjective
griz·zled
ˈgriz-əld 
: sprinkled, streaked, or mixed with gray
a grizzled beard
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