[ adj ] having dark hairs mixed with grey or white <adj.all>
Grizzled \Griz"zled\, a. Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.
Grizzled hair flowing in elf locks. --Sir W. Scott.
I quickly scanned the faces of three snoring men and of a grizzled old man who offered a cup filled with spit.
Anyone expecting the grizzled prospectors of yore might be disappointed, though, to find that modern-day "goldbugs" often dress in pin-striped suits and care more about geophysics and electromagnetics than grubhoes and hammers.
The elderly, grizzled man was greeted by Kuwaiti officials and hustled inside the building.
Early in the Gorbachev era, Moscow's emissaries began winning points overseas with new and charismatic spokesmen who replaced grizzled Brezhnev-period drones.
It is certainly the most dramatic: dropping his knife, grizzled old Abraham looks up in terror at the angel swooping down from the sky.
The grizzled Minnesota adventurer and five companions from five countries are probably as prepared as humans can be for the continent's perils.
His features, once famously handsome, are now broader, more grizzled, the face of a patriarch rather than a playboy.