Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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.
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