A barbed compliment. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a professor noted for his barbed criticisms. From Dictionary.com.
The democratic vistas have ended in barbed wire. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the Whale] Reference
One was a rough mangy mut that looked like it had been caught in barbed wire or a fight. From Wordnik.com. [How many of you own private land and what do you do if you see a dog running around and you know that dog is chasing deer away f] Reference
Their arms consisted in short barbed swords of iron, heavy black bows, arrows tipped with flint, iron and copper, and stone-headed mallets. From Wordnik.com. [People of the Dark]
Fonkoze’s Port-au-Prince branch office, resplendent in barbed wire:). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
The dialogue is routinely snappy and occasionally barbed, which is a bit of a surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Picture Show Pundits Feed] Reference
They're illegal to use on deer because they remain in a "barbed" position. From Wordnik.com. [looking for new broad heads what do yall use.] Reference
They are considered illegal to use on deer in NY because they remain in a "barbed" position. From Wordnik.com. [Let's bring up the broadhead debate again. A couple hours ago my friend Dan arrowed a mature doe.] Reference
A common misconception is that the thumbtacks and other weapons such as barbed wire are fake when used in professional wrestling. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
He's kind of barbed, and yet is praised for lying, which happens to be his job (something vague about publicizing Broadway shows). From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 9.] Reference
"The hair's scales act like a kind of barbed hooks," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference
He's kind of barbed, and yet is praised for lying, which happens to be his job. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Tamils demand UN to send monitors to the "barbed" wire camps in Vavunia and Jaffna to ensure Sri Lanka does not mis treat tamil civilians. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
GUPTA: It's called barbed suture lift. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2005] Reference
With dip-nets the fish are picked up, though some of them are so large that they can be secured only with a kind of barbed spear. ". From Wordnik.com. [Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics] Reference
Fencing and barbed wire keep out unwelcome visitors. From Wordnik.com. [Life at the End of the Line] Reference
No barbed wire, wall or river separates the two sides. From Wordnik.com. [A Familiar Tragedy] Reference
First glimpse of spotlights, barbed wire & real stockades. From Wordnik.com. [Cigarette Diaries] Reference
The answer: You would have to put a barbed wire fence around it. From Wordnik.com. [Crime & Punishment] Reference
A thin coil of barbed wire separates Uri Hetz's babies from the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Grapes on the Golan] Reference
Old Kreiges peer at us from behind the barbed wire as we march along. From Wordnik.com. [Cigarette Diaries] Reference
A "dead" soldier caught by the sniper is carried back to lunch over the barbed wire. From Wordnik.com. [JOIN THE RUSSIAN ARMY] Reference
The target of "To Die For's" barbed wit is the American addiction to media celebrity. From Wordnik.com. [Kidman's A Comedienne] Reference
"We crossed at night, crawling under barbed wire at the border," one escapee recalls. From Wordnik.com. [Riding The Seoul Train] Reference
They stand for hours behind barbed wire to pick up a few kilos of wheat, beans and oil. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRICE OF CARING] Reference
Despite the high walls and barbed wire, Hanawon feels most like a decompression chamber, not a prison. From Wordnik.com. [Riding The Seoul Train] Reference
Since then, the Israelis have put up more barbed wire and barricades to make sure people don't approach. From Wordnik.com. [Still Under Siege] Reference
Thousands of Afghans have gathered outside barbed-wired reinforced fences in the Pakistan town of Torkhum. From Wordnik.com. [The Doors Are Closed] Reference
We jumped over one barbed wire fence and the Israelis started firing at us with live ammunition and teargas. From Wordnik.com. [Still Under Siege] Reference
You can traverse spaces marked off by barbed wire, and navigate at night by way of dangling rice-paper lanterns. From Wordnik.com. [Funky Towns] Reference
When Americans last selected a president, the race ended with an ideological barbed-wire fence all over the electoral map. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Apathy] Reference
"Gadgets," lab director J. Robert Oppenheimer dubbed them when the laboratory set up shop behind barbed wire in April 1943. From Wordnik.com. [The Atomic Bomb] Reference
A thousand mini Green Zones have bloomed on the urban landscape, tormented fortifications of steel, concrete and barbed wire. From Wordnik.com. [Baghdad Comes Alive] Reference
POW camps are springing up everywhere; a huge soccer stadium near Hafir al-Batin has been converted into a barbed-wire hotel. From Wordnik.com. ['Keep The Pressure Up'] Reference
The two countries 'foreign ministers posed before an array of news cameras as they took wire cutters to the barbed fence there. From Wordnik.com. [The Berlin Wall Fell Later] Reference
Then just 50 feet from a stretch of tattered barbed wire, a pair of Hungarian soldiers on foot patrol stopped them at gunpoint. From Wordnik.com. [Reporter's Notebook: The Story Of A Lifetime] Reference
Soon the tourists were plotting ways to slip food to their Northern cousins; as of last week the barbed wire was still holding. From Wordnik.com. [Monsters No More] Reference
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