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View definitions for briery

briery

adjective as in echinate

adjective as in pricky

adjective as in thistly

adjective as in thorny

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Example Sentences

Gardening, berry-picking, and she helped with the gooseberries, the briery vines she did not like.

They have a most unkind preference for briery bushes, that discourage human intimacy.

The little things, the little briery things of life were holding her fast, tripping her headlong desires.

To-day we passed through what is called the Glades and Wilderness, to the Briery mountain.

The sower opened his hand as freely in crossing the highway or the patch of briery ground as anywhere else.

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On this page you'll find 299 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to briery, such as: barbed, bristling, echinated, prickly, pricky, and spiked.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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