Synonym: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny. Similar words: horny, thorn, hawthorn, corny, horn, author, plethora, thorough. Meaning: ['θɔrnɪ /'θɔːnɪ] 
adj. 1. bristling with perplexities 2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc..
adj. 1. bristling with perplexities 2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. 
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1) This thorny problem on the environmental protection floored the new mayor.
2) The young captain is pondering over a thorny problem.
3) We still haven't sorted out the thorny problem of where exactly the money is going to come from.
4) He has now raised the thorny issue of taxation within the European Union.
5) Scritch, scratch, scramble,(http://sentencedict.com/thorny.html) through the thorny bushes!
6) The third text, c, offers more thorny problems.
7) Intellectualproperty issues are another thorny problem.
8) Finally, there's that thorny question of price.
9) Moreover, the thorny question of additionality will have to be solved.
10) Witchcraft thus disposes of the thorny problem of the existence of evil.
11) Imposing answers to thorny moral quandaries ought to be an option of last resort in a democracy.
12) The three still have to sort out the thorny question of who will run the centre and where it will be.
13) A particular thorny dilemma arises should the caring situation present demands beyond the level of endurance.
14) These are not tremendously forceful answers to the thorny questions posed.
15) The thorny issue is rather cutting the workforce-not an easy task for a leftwing party.
16) The other thorny issue to be addressed is that of course funding.
17) This was the thorny question of what would happen eventually to the reactor's residue of radioactive waste.
18) Thorny presents sugar lumps in a plastic bowl and smiles; she expects something sinister in the smile but it is guileless.
19) But once again the thorny issue of bolts in West Penwith is raised.
20) But the thorny issues that divided the main trading powers at Seattle appear to be largely unresolved.
21) The dog hurt one of its pad when it stepped upon a thorny path.
22) Unlike many top executives, he doesn't believe in committing thorny issues to paper.
23) In addition, sending encrypted data over international boundaries represents a thorny issue: it is still illegal in some countries.
24) Single-brooded, some nightingales start the flight south - to tropical Savannah, or thorny scrub - at the end of July.
25) It was left to us alcoholics to sort out the thorny problem.
26) Another theory was that the tusks protect the eyes when the babirusa is hunting for food among thorny undergrowth.
27) It spread the length of the long spit, a thorny barrier and shelter for birds.
28) Much would depend on Dulles's mission and how he handled the thorny matters confronting him.
29) None of these struck me as particularly penetrating answers to a thorny problem.
30) Before me lay a deep gulley choked with oleanders and thorny scrub, which descended precipitously down to the private beach.
More similar words: horny, thorn, hawthorn, corny, horn, author, plethora, thorough, ornithology, authorize, authority, hornet's nest, thoroughly, ornithologist, authorities, ornithological, unauthorized, authorization, authoritarian, authoritative, take the bull by the horns, porn, born, torn, worn, corn, adorn, acorn, scorn, borne.