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barbed

DEFINITIONS OF: barbed

1

adj 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
armed
(used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

adj capable of wounding

“a barbed compliment”
Synonyms:
biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent
sarcastic
expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
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