Answer to "Hurtful remark" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BARB which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2025.

Hurtful remark crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BARB	55 %	4
SLUR	45 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Hurtful remark

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• insult
• slur
• dig
• snip
• arachidonic acid
• chine
• snack
• scrapping
• card
• catch
• scrap
• cropping

Crossword Answer definitions

BARB noun

1. The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
2. A hurtful or disparaging remark.
3. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
4. Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.
5. A horse.
6. One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
7. Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
8. Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish), found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
9. A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
10. A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
11. A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
12. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]
13. A bit for a horse.
14. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.

BARB verb

1. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
2. To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
3. To cut (hair).
4. To shave or dress the beard of.
5. To clip; to mow.

BARB noun

1. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
2. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

BARB noun

1. A barbiturate.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result BARB

• Hook
• Zinger
• Sarcastic remark
• Cutting remark
• Fishhook feature
• Dig
• Dorothy Parker comment, typically
• Spike on a wire
• Unfriendly remark
• Fishhook part

More clues leading to the result SLUR

• Aspersion
• Pronounce indistinctly
• Disparage
• Calumny
• Bad-mouth
• Cast aspersions on
• Insulting words
• N-bomb, e.g.
• Sound like you've had a few too many
• Speak indistinctly