thorny

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1. thorny - Adjective

3. thorny - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.

Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.

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Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. Michel de Montaigne

And sometimes when I am weary, When the path is thorny and Wild, I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight, Back to the eyes that smiled. And pray that a wreath like a rainbow May slip from the beautiful past, And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love And keep me, and hold me fast. Voltairine de Cleyre

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. counsel. William Shakespeare

The way of the troublemaker is thorny. Native American Proverb

For a taste treat, try tuna roe and thorny cardoons. Sicilian Proverb

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