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Covered in barbs, thorns or prickles

Having or causing a tingling or itching sensation

Requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment

Having a tendency to be easily annoyed or angered

Covered with hair or bristles

Causing physical discomfort or pain

Resembling a knife or its effects

Not easy to please or satisfy

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Adjective

Covered in barbs, thorns or prickles

bristling with thorns

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“I liked the stealthy hiding part, often choosing the excellent cover provided by a set of prickly Pyracantha bushes in a neighboring yard.”

Adjective

Having or causing a tingling or itching sensation

“It's this so-called bronchial constriction that creates the tight, prickly sensation in your chest, and aerobic exercise only compounds the problem.”

Adjective

Requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment

like herding cats

causing discomfort

unfavourable^UK

life-threatening

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

disadvantageous

anxiety provoking

full of hardship

antagonizing^US

destabilising^UK

destabilizing^US

antagonising^UK

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

emotionally draining

anxiety-inducing

hard to understand

as clear as mud

slight but persistent

difficult to understand

heart-wrenching

more than one can bear

more than flesh and blood can stand

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“Perhaps movie-makers see it as a prickly subject, limp as a film theme, a let-down for audiences.”

Adjective

Having a tendency to be easily annoyed or angered

ill-humoured^UK

like a bear with a sore head

on a short fuse

as cross as two sticks

easily offended

having got out of bed the wrong side

hot under the collar

having got out of bed on the wrong side

confrontational

foaming at the mouth

not best pleased

bent out of shape

unaccommodating

apt to fly off the handle

perversely irritable

got up on wrong side of bed

having short fuse

hot under collar

bundle of nerves

huffy irascible

on the defensive

ready for a fight

passive-aggressive

in high dudgeon

quick to take offence

uncommunicative

down in the mouth

uncomplimentary

down in the dumps

not on speaking terms

with a long face

evil-intentioned

not afraid to call a spade a spade

gnashing one's teeth

dishonorable^US

at daggers drawn

unsportsmanlike

dishonourable^UK

having a fit of the sulks

looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny

in the doldrums

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“Eventually, they cohabited and married, but things were never that simple for the prickly couple who were both too independent to settle easily into married life.”

Adjective

Covered with hair or bristles

covered with fur

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Causing physical discomfort or pain

feeling uncomfortable

giving someone gyp

giving someone trouble

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Resembling a knife or its effects

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Adjective

Not easy to please or satisfy

unaccommodating

over-particular

high-maintenance

over-censorious

hard to satisfy

pass-remarkable

difficult to please

over-fastidious

impossible to please

easily disgusted

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