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thorny

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Adjective

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

bristling with perplexities
- the thorny question of states' rights

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