Etymology
Origin of thistly
Example Sentences
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“Eddington,” Ari Aster’s twisty and thistly modern-day western, is set in New Mexico during that first hot and crazy summer of the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
And this was before you got to his extended blurb on the inside jacket: “Fear of Flying stands as a notably luxuriant and glowing bloom in the sometimes thistly garden of ‘raised’ feminine consciousness.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2014
Yet defining what it means to be courageous has often proved as thistly as distinguishing the wise ones from the fools.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2011
On the Feast of St. Francis, the townspeople leave a hoarded egg white and the thistly cardoon as an offering.
From Time Magazine Archive
This makes Dad chuckle under his breath in a thistly way.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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