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Touchy   /tˈətʃi/   Listen
Touchy

adjective
1.
Quick to take offense.  Synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned.
2.
Difficult to handle; requiring great tact.  Synonyms: delicate, ticklish.  "Hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter" , "A touchy subject"



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"Touchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... of inestimable value to a boy or girl of over-refined sensibilities. Oftentimes, when boys enter college as freshmen, they are so touchy that their sense of honor is constantly being hurt and their pride stung by the unconscious thrusts of classmates and companions. But after they have been in college a term, and have been knocked about and handled ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
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... for the Imperial city. They made their plans on the way. Once arrived, instead of bringing up the old charges, they accused Athanasius of having prevented the sailing of the grain vessels from Alexandria to Constantinople in order to cause a famine. It was a clever trick. Constantine was extremely touchy about the prosperity of his new city and had just condemned to death a friend of his own for the same crime. He ...
— Saint Athanasius - The Father of Orthodoxy • F.A. [Frances Alice] Forbes
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... a sea-toiler's resentment for men who used the ocean as a mere playground. But more especially, during those later days, his general temper was touchy in regard to dapper young men, for he had faced a problem of the home which had tried his soul. He felt an unreasoning choler rising in him in respect to these chaps, who seemed to have no troubles ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
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... touchy about his age," Mrs. Fortescue explained, "and so am I, so please, Beverley, keep ...
— Betty at Fort Blizzard • Molly Elliot Seawell
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... Law Territory of Refuge TREATMENT DISCUSSED. Corporal Punishment Forfeiture and Testimony System for Ultimate Freedom The Blackest Feature in Slavery VISIONARY DEPUTATION Inveterate Slaveholder Touchy Slaveholder, and Swaggering Bully Clerical Slave Advocate Amiable Planter Recriminator Abolitionist and Intelligent Slaveholder A frightful Question Closing Observations Nebraska—The ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
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