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was touchy

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Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.

  • It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.

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Pammy was touchy.

Friedrich was touchy and taciturn.

But he sure was touchy about discussing his age.

He was touchy, prejudiced, opinionated, impatient, often bored, usually high-handed, brutally bigoted.

He was touchy about the reception, display and preservation of his work.

"When I started we had about 12 people, and it was touchy.

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Ms. Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning" was touchy-feely, multi-culti and crammed with shout-outs: So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew The African, the Native American, the Sioux, The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek, The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheikh, The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher, The Privileged, the Homeless, the Teacher.

The culture of Apple was touchy-feely, caring about its employees, and solicitous of good relations with the community yet it was run by an autocratic young man whose favorite phrase was "brain-dead" in phrases like "that's the most brain-dead idea I've ever heard".

"He's touchy".

Religion is touchy.

It's touchy times.

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