The word "barbs" is correct in written English.
It can be used to refer to sharp or cutting remarks, often intended to hurt or criticize someone.
Example: "Her comments were filled with barbs that left him feeling insulted."
Alternatives: "Insults" or "Jabs".
The Bible of barbed wire, Robert Clifton's "Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers" (University of Oklahoma Press, 1970, and from which this article's illustrations are drawn), lists 749 varieties of barbed wire, most of them patented and almost all devised in the peak years of westwards expansion.
Most of the barbs are paraphrases for "decent, principled man".
No matter the barbs, including Santorum's personal attack on the former House speaker, whom he previously said he might choose as a running mate, it seemed no one could draw blood from Newt.
But Demirtas responded to those barbs with trademark serenity, challenging Erdogan by saying: "We, as the HDP, will transform the lion in your heart to a kitten".
Top Apple and Xiaomi executives traded blows under the veil of light-hearted barbs at China's World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, where Xiaomi's chief executive and founder Lei Jun described the company as a "small miracle" and said that it was setting its sights on world smartphone domination.
For its first half, the psychology is a tad lazy, the satirical barbs a bit over-obvious.
But why are you a bit fat?" "Why don't you have a fit suit [a tracksuit] like the other mothers?" After generations of daughters being on the receiving end of snipes and barbs, I'm happy to take this.
He publicly challenged Nigel Farage, who aimed his sharpest barbs at Poles, to a duel by sword in Hyde Park.
On the day the two Ryans were trading barbs, he picked up an endorsement from the Illinois Education Association, a teachers' group, which has hitherto usually backed Republicans.
And why has the threat of obvious and dangerous damage to the UN's credibility, to the western alliance, and to relations between America and recently more co-operative Russia and China not helped to overcome the differences?Instead, the diplomatic barbs seem to have been deliberately sharpened.
Although bankers have been the targets of the sharpest barbs, plenty of bosses in other industries are also getting a tongue-lashing.
