Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of bridle.
- adj. Equipped with a bridle; controlled.
- adj. Having bridle-shaped marks.
Examples
“The result was that Dulcie "bridled" in a twitter of wounded faith and anger.”
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
“The chief merit of her figure lay in this particular, that she "bridled" well.”
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
“Republicans bridled at weekend comments from Sen. Richard Durbin D., Ill., who said he wanted no further domestic-spending cuts because the Democrats' alternative had already "pushed this to the limit.”
The Wall Street Journal: Policy Disputes Spill Over Into Spending Fight
“Make Your Mental Health Care a Team Sport It's tough staying emotionally stable nowadays and many of you bridled at my suggestion that you trade in your one-on-one-$150-a-session-Ph.D.-accredited-shrink for a $50-per session group therapist.”
“I also wonder about Depp and depth, or rather Depp and range, two elements consistently missing in his performances, bridled as they are by a post-Warholian lack of affect or commitment.”
The Guardian: Johnny Depp is back as a very different Hunter S Thompson
“He bridled that the players were advised not to say anything to the media.”
The Guardian: Snap judgments in the Patrice Evra-Luis Suárez dispute help no one | Marina Hyde
“Critics bridled at a permanent increase in the mortgage fee to pay for such a short-term tax break.”
The Wall Street Journal: Senate Clears Tax-Break Extension, Spending Bill
“In the U.S. and U.K., at least, with the dismantling of many New Deal era reforms in a conservative counterrevolution in the enduring debate about the pie and its pieces, and the role of government in all this, the more loosely bridled forces of capitalism are once again at play, creating new economies and destroying old ones -- an inherently unstable process.”
“However, when asked how she was coping with her decline, Sharapova bridled.”
The Guardian: Australian Open 2011: Maria Sharapova is still a queen without a court
“But she bridled at the contempt for men she encountered among many movement activists.”
The Wall Street Journal: History That Tells An Unexpected Tale
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bridled’.
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Deprefixed words
A list of words you more frequently hear used with prefixes than without.
clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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LizardBreath's Words
specious, termagant, mullet, callipygian, inchoate, palolo, importunate, impecunious, trinitarian, reptilian, insufflator, absquatulate and 14 more...
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