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Definition of Thorny
Thorny
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.


Related Definitions:
As, Crown, Full, Harassing, Hence, Like, Of, Or, Perplexing, Rough, Spiny, Thorn, Thorny, Tree, Troublesome, Vexatious, With, Wood


Thorny Quotations
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.
Michael K. Simpson

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Theodore Dreiser

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Thorny Translations
thorny in German is dornig, dornige, dornig
thorny in Spanish is espinoso






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