Word "BARBED" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Synonyms:
barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
capable of wounding
Synonyms:
biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent
Examples:
a barbed compliment

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Trespasser deterrent, ___ wire
Spiked Puzzler Backwords 05 Dec 2023
Cutting cover of tree mostly over border The Guardian Cryptic 07 Sep 2023
Like spiky wire USA Today 26 Nov 2022
Prevent plot being designed to wound
Like some wire Wall Street Journal 04 Nov 2021
Like fishhooks, usually The Washington Post 20 Oct 2021
Like fishhooks, usually LA Times Daily 20 Oct 2021
Like some fence wire Universal 28 Apr 2021
Unpleasant to live with poet around
Unpleasant to live with poet around
Stick on bottom, wounding
Sharp boozer needs a place to sleep
Cutting New York Times 20 Apr 2019
Wounding, spiteful The Times Concise 12 Mar 2019
Cutting
Like fishhooks, as a rule The Washington Post 22 Dec 2018
Like fishhooks, as a rule LA Times Daily 22 Dec 2018
Malicious counterplot?
Unkind, as criticism New York Times 04 Nov 2018
Hurtful obstacle followed by plot
Like some wire Thomas Joseph 03 Jul 2018
Hurtful obstacle followed by plot
Like fishhooks, as a rule
Unkind, as criticism
Don't allow a place to rest? Like unkind comments
Prickly part of garden below refreshment area
Like some fence wire Wall Street Journal 23 May 2016
Like cruel joke uncovered about bishop The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Jan 2015
-- -wire fence
Like cow pasture wire, often
Like cow pasture wire
Like cow pasture wire
Like some wire
Like a fishhook
Like some wire
Kind of wire
Kind of wire
Type of arrow or wire
Like fence wire
Sort of wire
Stinging
Having spikes.
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