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Meanings of thorny in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "barbed"
Examples for "barbed"
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I vote we try to get round outside Mr. Brown's barbed wire.
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After 16 months of barbed constitutional squabbles, patience is in short supply.
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There was in the air an imminence of incident, acid and barbed.
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And the name of this new and dreaded bramble is-thebarbed-wirefence.
5
Above the barriers runs barbed metal to prevent people from climbing over.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Facing that briary jungle on the ground level was a little daunting.
2
On mountain heights, in briary woods, I find
Usage of thorny in английском
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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.
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The vibe knob is a clever solution to a thorny social problem.
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Good thing Stephenson tackles that thorny task in the video at right.
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In practical terms though, the issue of independence is a thorny one.
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Prof Kiberd's assumption avoids dealing with the thorny question of defining marriage.
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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.
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There's also the thorny subject of constitutional referendums and the McKenna judgment.
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Beyond the technical questions are increasingly thorny social, political and economic issues.
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The thorny journalistic issue of privacy is hovering over our heads today.
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Director Deborah LaVine's cast does a splendid job with this thorny material.
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Stalling will make it harder to tackle important and thorny policy matters.
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He listened while the thorny matter of Harrison's payment was further debated.
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Thorny through the time
Thorny across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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