rispid
Pronunciations
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/ˈɹɪspɪd/
Adjective
Rugose, rough (having an uneven surface).
Usage- Formal
- Obsolete
- Examples
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[…] seeds in twos, threes, or fives under each scale, with their wing appendage small, and the shell thin and rispid.
Adjective
Harsh, rude.
Usage- nonstandard
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The desperate Youth, livid, rispid, addressed the Maiden, clutching the rails of the garden fence.
Or if every morning you had to contend with the rispid memory of decades of bristles.
More examples (2)
The philosophy behind the theory is of course the object of lively, sometimes rispid, debate, and some considerations on that can be found in the book by Lawrence Sklar.
I dont know what happens to US Army, they’re all very rispid… anyway, had to leave fast and went north.
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