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synonyms for thistly

  • barbed
  • briery
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • echinate
  • prickly
  • pricky
  • spiked
  • spiky
  • spinous
  • spiny
  • stinging
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How to use thistly in a sentence

Perhaps it was the thistly food he ate which had an effect upon his temper and made him the awkward creature he had grown.
DICK O' THE FENSGEORGE MANVILLE FENN
In this valley there were the most beautiful flowers, mallows, chrysanthemums, and thistly plants.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFER
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WORDS RELATED TO THISTLY

  • barbed
  • briery
  • bristling
  • echinated
  • prickly
  • pricky
  • spiked
  • spiky
  • spiny
  • thistly
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.