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adjective satellite • capable of wounding • having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | ||||
| 23% | 4 | Hurtful remark | ||
noun • an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect • the pointed part of barbed wire • a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove • one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather verb • provide with barbs | ||||
| 23% | 4 | Hurtful word | ||
noun • (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato • a disparaging remark • a blemish made by dirt verb • play smoothly or legato • speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur • utter indistinctly • become vague or indistinct | ||||
Hurtful Counterplot
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BARBED which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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BARBED
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