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How to pronounce thorny in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny
Derivation thorn, thorniness
Type Words


the thorny question of states' rights.

Examples of thorny

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The lizard, called a thorny devil, collects water where there seemingly is none.
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Thorny is a long mountain that comes very close to Mill Mountain at its far end.
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They protect your hands, especially when you work with thorny or prickly plants.
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We eat breakfast beneath thorny trees, practically the only things growing here.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
Whether to address smoking in treatment centers has long been a thorny question.
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They quickly moved up and trod through thick patches of weeds and thorny shrubs.
From the washingtontimes.com
And the online piracy of music, movies and other content remains a thorny issue.
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Thorny, dry, deciduous forest and thorny shrubs can be found all over the state.
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Every modern girl needs a little help to get through life's thorny predicaments.
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More examples
  • Bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights"
  • 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"
  • (The Thorns) The Thorns are an acoustic rock band formed in 2002 as a project of Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge, and Shawn Mullins.
  • (The Thorns (album)) The Thorns is the self-titled debut album by rock supergroup The Thorns. Released by Aware Records in 2003, it was produced by Brendan O'Brien following songwriting sessions by the three members before they officially became a band.
  • (The Thorns (EP)) The Thorn is an EP released by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1984, in between the albums Hyaena and Tinderbox. The release contains four tracks recorded with orchestral instrumentation. ...
  • Thorns is a Norwegian black metal band that formed in 1989 and was part of the early Norwegian black metal scene. They made two highly influential demos in the early 1990s, Grymyrk and Tru00F8ndertun, but have only released one full-length album.
  • (Thorns (Exalted)) Exalted is a role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing. The game is classified as high fantasy, but may be more accurately described as "mythic fantasy", as the developer specifically avoided drawing on J. R. R. ...
  • (Thorns (novel)) Thorns is a science fiction novel by American author Robert Silverberg, published as a paperback original in 1967, and a Nebula and Hugo Awards nominee.
  • Having thorns or spines; troublesome or vexatious