bristle

Americans tend to bristle even at self-censorship; we are reluctant to declare that we simply are not going to look at something.

And they bristle too at the notion that they had some kind of personal enmity toward the president.

She continued to bristle at being associated with the Mafia because of her father.

Her woefully neglected novels still bristle with wit and insight.

While a normal person would bristle at such obvious red flags, our girls ran like bulls towards love.

Even the roofs of the houses bristle with pigeon-lofts and artful-looking structures for the capture of wandering birds.

To whom the prophetess, seeing his neck now bristle with horrid snakes, flings a soporific cake of honey and medicated grain.

De time wuz w'en folks had a mighty slim chance fer ter git bristle, en dey aint no tellin' w'en dat time gwine come ag'in.

His mask is brown, cut off above the upper lip, over which a pair of short moustachios bristle.

In crescent formation the dense black cloud swept on—in dead silence—a phalanx of shields, a perfect bristle of assegais.