barbed

If I look closely, I can see tiny red thorns pointing out from the surface—like a wall of botanical barbed wire.

Xue's post has since been taken down - but the dust from the barbed exchanges hasn't settled yet.

The split from Alejandro seems to inspire the record's most barbed lyric.

Seidel saw a man in the West, with tears in his eyes, staring through barbed wire at a two-year-old boy holding the hand of an old woman in the East.

The star of The Traitors Series 3, who was eliminated on episode two, previously told the BBC that the pain she suffered was comparable to that of "barbed wire around her stomach".