0 past simple and past participle of bristle
She bristled at the suggestion that she had in any way neglected the child.
Friend behind me, whose speech bristled with powerful argument.
The case bristled with difficult points of law, but the defendants simply could not afford to risk an appeal.
It bristled with international complications, difficulties, and dangers.
Although the problem bristled with difficulties the easiest thing was to make money available so that they could carry on production.
I think his speech this evening bristled with illustrations of that point.
He said that those regulations were only withdrawn because they bristled with difficulties.
Everywhere one looked the path bristled with difficulties.
The question bristled with complications and technicalities.