Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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Examples for "prickly "
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 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.
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 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.
6 In return, Malayadhwaja pierced the son of Drona with a barbed arrow.
7 He said nothing, only shot the greedy official a single, barbed glance.
8 Across the road and through the barbed - wire fence he led them pell-mell.
9 Through these gates and past the barbed wire filed the marching men.
10 The pitmaster was with them, a long barbed whip in his hand.
11 A childcare centre stands there now, locked behind breezeblocks and barbed wire.
12 She pointed toward the line of trees along a barbed wire fence.
13 The barbed point of Antsy's bolt didn't waver from the man's chest.
14 He came to a barbed - wire entanglement half embedded in fallen beech leaves.
15 The sergeant moved out ahead of them, trotting to the barbed - wire enclosure.
16 But they're also putting forward a focused, barbed critique of institutional sexism.
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barb Verb
Indicative · Past Indefinite
Barbed across language varieties