Synonyms for barb
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1. shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibenoun

   an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

   "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"

   Synonyms:
   calamus, beam, shaft, archeological site, stab, peter, shaft of light, diaphysis, guessing, excavation, ray of light, pecker, digging, snap, jab, guesswork, cock, rotating shaft, blastoff, stroke, ray, prick, shooter, scape, slam, scene, spear, dick, dig, crack, tool, lance, snapshot, shooting, light beam, quill, gibe, guess, beam of light, sweep, putz, jibe, irradiation, injection, pellet, dead reckoning, shot

2. barbnoun

   the pointed part of barbed wire

   Synonyms:
   dig, jibe, gibe, shot, shaft, slam

3. barbnoun

   a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove

   Synonyms:
   dig, jibe, gibe, shot, shaft, slam

4. barbverb

   one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather

   Synonyms:
   dig, jibe, gibe, shot, shaft, slam

5. barbverb

   provide with barbs

   "barbed wire"

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1. • Change
   • Point
   • Remark

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1. barbnoun

   Synonyms:
   beard (or excrescences like a beard), wattles

2. barbnoun

   Synonyms:
   horse (of the barbary breed)

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1. List of paraphrases for "barb":

   tooth, barbara, ranch

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How to use barb in a sentence?

1. Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

   There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

2. Akhenaton:

   The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.