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ticklish

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Example Sentences

I ran my thumb across my sole and felt a jolting, ticklish sensation I later learned meant I had nerve damage.

But as a Senate candidate, especially one looking to woo Tea Party types, her situation is somewhat more ticklish.

Here am I, trying to get you out of a mighty ticklish situation, and you go and get funny.

He knows a lot of useful stuff, and these are ticklish times.'

He settled back on his haunches and gave a little thought to the matter, and understood that he had a ticklish job ahead of him.

It was a ticklish business recovering the sledge which hung suspended in the crevasse.

It164 would have been a ticklish business to make one's way along the deck then, he thought.

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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ticklish, such as: awkward, delicate, precarious, thorny, touchy, and volatile.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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