This·tly a.
  1. Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
  2. Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.
  In such a world, so thorny, and where none
  Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found,
  Without some thistly sorrow at its side.   --Cowper.
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