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Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
barbed
prickly
bristled
bristly
spiny
burry
briery
burred
briary
setose
armed
Thorny.
hard
difficult
Synonyms
Examples for "
barbed
"
barbed
prickly
bristled
bristly
spiny
Examples for "
barbed
"
1
I vote we try to get round outside Mr. Brown's
barbed
wire.
2
After 16 months of
barbed
constitutional squabbles, patience is in short supply.
3
There was in the air an imminence of incident, acid and
barbed
.
4
And the name of this new and dreaded bramble
is
-
the
barbed
-
wire
fence
.
5
Above the barriers runs
barbed
metal to prevent people from climbing over.
1
However, given the
prickly
undercurrent, today may not be the best day!
2
Government and business relations between Singapore and Indonesia have historically been
prickly
.
3
For a similar reason, the actual
prickly
pears themselves are attractively coloured.
4
Any mention of her former colleagues is bound to make her
prickly
.
5
My body is mostly numb, but I'm beginning to feel
prickly
sensations.
1
In fact, some Broadway insiders
bristled
at the hypocrisy of the situation.
2
At the sound the hair
bristled
upon the back of the listener.
3
Gingrich
bristled
when CNN debate moderator John King asked about the allegations.
4
The Prime Minister
bristled
;
he seemed now to be on the track.
5
The Republican president has long
bristled
at that finding, which Russia denies.
1
The
bristly
ridge of its chine showed black against the red west.
2
His long arms almost strangled me; his
bristly
mustache scratched my cheek.
3
They were still comically stiff-legged and
bristly
as they aloofly sniffed noses.
4
His pocked cheeks and
bristly
dome would enhance his gaunt, sinister mien.
5
Lou's thin face reddened up to the roots of his
bristly
hair.
1
The next two cases include the remaining specimens of the
spiny
-
finned
fish.
2
By the cliff edge the
spiny
cactus threw out strange withered arms.
3
They include species like the small blue butterfly and the
spiny
dogfish.
4
DavRian kicked a small, leafy plant that grew among the
spiny
gorse.
5
After all, the
spiny
foliage discourages any grazing, or so I thought.
1
Here's your
'
burry
,
'
pointing to a bureau with a bookcase on the top.
2
Trhree swell families on the Avenue guv me all this to
burry
the brat.
3
Suzy Spoon, a vegetarian butcher based, in Sydney spoke to Maya
burry
about her work.
4
He wouldn't let them
burry
her where most was hurried that died in the hospital.
5
His naked pink tail lashed in agitation, though his furry face and
burry
voice carried no emotion.
1
You are the eglantine in human form, and often quite as
briery
.
2
I took my neighbor to see this
briery
wilderness, and asked his advice.
3
They have a most unkind preference for
briery
bushes, that discourage human intimacy.
4
It is even more vigorous than the preceding, but not so
briery
or branching.
5
Gardening, berry-picking, and she helped with the gooseberries, the
briery
vines she did not like.
1
Then his stomach turned cold and his tongue grew thick and
burred
.
2
BOING went the clock, a second time, and again everything
burred
.
3
The bolt popped back suddenly, scraping her knuckles on
burred
iron.
4
Somewhere a cicada
burred
loudly and then unwound into silence.
5
It
burred
through the room and through their heads.
1
Facing that
briary
jungle on the ground level was a little daunting.
2
On mountain heights, in
briary
woods, I find
1
I mean, and this leads to a really
thorny
ethical question, right?
2
But there's that
thorny
question: What constitutes doing business in a state?
3
But the really
thorny
problem is the nature of the credit crunch.
4
Either way, India's problem is mostly homegrown -and it looks
thorny
.
5
The vibe knob is a clever solution to a
thorny
social problem.
6
Good thing Stephenson tackles that
thorny
task in the video at right.
7
In practical terms though, the issue of independence is a
thorny
one.
8
Prof Kiberd's assumption avoids dealing with the
thorny
question of defining marriage.
9
In fact, the drier the region, the more
thorny
are its plants.
10
Georgia will present the White House with a
thorny
foreign policy problem.
11
There's also the
thorny
subject of constitutional referendums and the McKenna judgment.
12
Beyond the technical questions are increasingly
thorny
social, political and economic issues.
13
The
thorny
journalistic issue of privacy is hovering over our heads today.
14
Director Deborah LaVine's cast does a splendid job with this
thorny
material.
15
Stalling will make it harder to tackle important and
thorny
policy matters.
16
He listened while the
thorny
matter of Harrison's payment was further debated.
thorny
thorny issue
thorny bushes
thorny path
thorny question
thorny subject