touchiness
Example Sentences
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The datedness of the jibe about Lacan may suggest a long-nurtured touchiness.
From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2020
They occasionally display the level of touchiness and desire for privacy one might normally expect of, say, Blanche DuBois.
From Slate • Nov. 7, 2019
On Monday, China blocked HBO.com after comedian John Oliver ran a segment that discussed Mr. Xi’s alleged touchiness about his purported resemblance to Winnie the Pooh.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2018
They said this touchiness was apparent in the lack of monuments in North Korea honoring the estimated 400,000 Chinese soldiers who died helping protect the North during the 1950-53 Korean War.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2018
Our sense of honor is responsible for our exaggerated sensitiveness and touchiness; and if there is the conceit in us with which some foreigners charge us, that, too, is a pathological outcome of honor.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Nitobe, Inazo
