barbed

IPA: bˈɑrbd

adjective

  • Having barbs.
  • (heraldry)
  • Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
  • Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.
  • Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).
  • (of language, etc.) Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
  • (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
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Examples of "barbed" in Sentences

  • Barbed tape is also characterised by the shape of the barbs.
  • Infantrymen are often trained and inured to the injuries caused by barbed wire.
  • One was a rough mangy mut that looked like it had been caught in barbed wire or a fight.
  • They were delivered to tar paper barracks in barbed wire compounds patrolled by soldiers.
  • Their arms consisted in short barbed swords of iron, heavy black bows, arrows tipped with flint, iron and copper, and stone-headed mallets.
  • Or do we just have to invest in barbed wire and sit and wait for the anarchy to descend? on November 6, 2008 at 7: 59 am | Reply PC Disgruntled
  • The idea was brought to a company who designed flags and the black and white silhouette of a prisoner encased in barbed wire with a looming guard tower was born.
  • After the Wall was laid out in barbed wire in 1961, she and her husband were denied permission to go to the West to obtain the medicine that was keeping him alive.
  • Lee is essentially a satirist who redefines the term barbed wit; more traditional in his approach than say, Chris Morris, but no less appalled and disgusted at what has become of us.
  • Wrestling legend Paul Heyman has slammed Rihanna for allegedly ripping off his idea of being wrapped up in barbed wire for the single cover for her current comeback single “Russian Roulette.”

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