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barbed
adjective
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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bɑː(ɹ)bd
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adjective
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
“A horse with a short bristly mane”
adjective
Capable of wounding
“A barbed compliment”
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A horse with a short bristly mane
Bristly shrubs
Burred fruits
Setaceous whiskers
A barbed compliment
A biting aphorism
Pungent satire
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