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..
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61) Technical measures taken for the Zaohe 3rd lock chamber are discussed in view of the construction characteristics and thorny problems and according to the construction procedure.
62) In the second part of her essay Driver tackles the thorny philosophical question of whether one can behave immorally when in "non-veridical" (illusory) circumstances.
63) The Leopard Tortoise Stigmochelys (Geochelone) pardalis is a large grazing species that favors semi-arid (not dry), thorny to grassland habitats.
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64) Technical thorny problems met during construction of cast-in-situ piles at riprap backfilling area and corresponding countermeasures are expounded to serve as a reference for similar engineering.
65) Chaparejos, or chaps, served a valuable purpose when a cowboy had to chase after a steer into a patch of thorny mesquite.
66) Sikhism Do as you desire goodness for yourself, as you cannot expect tasty fruit if you sow thorny trees.
67) The roses are thorny. Take care not to prick your hands.
68) The great difference between Chinese and English intertextual networks makes intertextuality one of the most thorny problems in E-C / C-E literary translation.
69) Ever since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Iranian MEK (short for Mujahedeen-e Khalge) has been a thorny spoil of war for the United States.
70) More recently, he has had to contend with thorny personnel issues.
71) Blackthorn is cold, hard, and thorny - it will not be killed, either by fire or frost.
72) As I went along the deeply shaded lane, with its close thorny seora hedges, by the side of the tank covered with green water weeds, I rapturously took in picture after picture.
73) Find out that the sisters of the most holy thorny crown are involved in the cover - up?
74) Another thorny issue involves controlling inflation in the face of emerging market forces.
75) In this article, we will briefly present the IOCP technology provided by Winsock API 2.0, and also explain the thorny problems that arise while coding and the solution to each one of them.
76) It includes the up and down rolling wheel , thorny roller, groovy roller, reducing gears.
77) Despite the two sides'progress on economic ties, more thorny political and military issues remain unresolved.
78) With that thorny issue out of the way the rest followed easily.
79) Biometrics may raise thorny questions about privacy and the potential for abuse.
80) This thorny problem on the invironmental protection floored the new mayor.
81) The dog hurt one of its pad when It'stepped upon a thorny path.
82) Privatisation remains a thorny issue in a country where private property became a constitutional right only in 2004 and where the right to own productive assets remains unclear.
83) Imagine trying to walk down a narrow path that is hemmed in by thorny vines and low hanging branches and you're wearing a backpack overstuffed with the many things you think you need.
84) The current local vegetation is the degraded secondary vegetation: savanna and succulent thorny shrub.
85) Biometrics raise thorny questions about privacy and the potential for abuse.
86) I really don't believe he's able to deal with this thorny problem.
87) The boys argued over the thorny points in the lesson.
88) The effect of atmospheric refraction error on observed value is a very thorny problem in EDM trigonometric leveling.
89) Eurasian evergreen thorny shrubs bearing red or orange - red berries.
90) As the WEEE EU directive enacted in 2003, the thorny problems on the recycle and reuse of WEEE emerge thoroughly and make a great impact on the global electronic industries.
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