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barbed

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barbed  (bärbd)
adj.
1. Having barbs.
2. Cutting; stinging: barbed criticism; barbed statements.
barbed·ness (bärbd-ns) n.
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Adj.1.barbed - capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent
sarcastic - expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
2.barbed - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, setaceous, setose, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny, bristly
armed - (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
barbed
adjective 1. cutting, pointed, biting, critical, acid, hostile, nasty, harsh, savage, brutal, searing, withering, scathing, unkind, hurtful, belittling, sarcastic, caustic, scornful, vitriolic, trenchant, acrid, catty (informal) mordant, mordacious
adjective 2. spiked, pointed, toothed, hooked, notched, prickly, jagged, thorny, pronged, spiny, snaggy


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Upright pipes, serving as stanchions, were being screwed into the top of the Arangi's rail so that they served to support three strands of barbed wire that ran completely around the vessel, being broken only at the gangway for a narrow space of fifteen inches.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle.
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They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now.
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