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Impolite remark
Answer for the clue "Impolite remark ", 4 letters:
barb
Alternative clues for the word barb
- Verbal zinger
- An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- "Stranger Things" character who went missing in season 1
- Item on a banderilla
- Ms Streisand's no artist? An unkind thing to say!
- Sharp put-down
- Good name for someone with a sharp tongue?
- Pointed part of a fishhook
- Porcupine quill feature
Word definitions for barb in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kingfish \King"fish`\ (k[i^]ng"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zo["o]l.) An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus , especially Menticirrus saxatilis , or Menticirrus nebulosos , of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting , surf whiting , and barb . The opah. ...
Usage examples of barb.
Grand Dame Alpha, Michael highly doubted the accuracy of that last barb.
She caught a glimpse of the Roman aqueduct and the massive ramparts of the Crusader City, and then she was following the old coastal road past the Dan Caesarea Hotel with its 18-hole golf course secured behind a perimeter of high fence and concertina barbed wire.
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Do you not have some enemy to go bedevil, lop off a head or two, or something equally unfeminine, and leave innocents like me free of your word barbs?
He came upon rattan or bejuco thickets, where thorns, pointing down the stems like barbs on a fish-hook, snatched at his clothes and clung to them too.
A handful of bigger shapes moved on the ground, grinding through American barbed wire and into the U.
The first night was a great success, there was not a whisper of protest from the Boche, and we had cut through an almost continuous line, adequately protected by concertina barbed wire, and particularly strengthened at various points where posts had to be held during the next day.
I cruised the bad boogaloo streets until I spotted the car that tried to ram meparked behind a cinderblock dump circled by barbed wire.
I cruised the bad boogaloo streets until I spotted the car that tried to ram me-parked behind a cinderblock dump circled by barbed wire.
Kicking, the darsteed bugled its frustration and lashed its barbed tail from side to side.
They are fleshy shrubs, with rounded, woody stems, and numerous succulent branches, composed in most of the species of separate joints or parts, which are much compressed, often elliptic or suborbicular, dotted over in spiral lines with small, fleshy, caducous leaves, in the axils of which are placed the areoles or tufts of barbed or hooked spines of two forms.
Chance wrenched open the front door and made one stride before he managed to bring himself to a halt, his face scratched, his clothes caught in the barbs of coiled dannert wire piled high in the porch and across the narrow strip between the railings and the front window.
It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and as well a thing placed upon authoritative record years ago by Scoresby, that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland seas.
Celsus instructs that in extracting arrow-heads the entrance-wound should be dilated, the barb of the arrow-head crushed by strong pliers, or protected between the edges of a split reed, and thus withdrawn without laceration of the soft parts.
The Dobe hesitated at the fence for an instant, but when Train had the top strand of barbed wire held down, he snapped his fingers and Gutter cleared the fence in a single smooth bound.