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touchiness

noun as in testiness

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With Trump now issuing an executive order about the contents of federal art institutions, his own artistic tastes are being highlighted, like his fondness for paintings of himself, and his touchiness about them.

For starters, she would like us to get over the kind of hair-trigger touchiness about language that leads to social media pile-ons, and focus on genuine threats.

In preadolescent children, Fortuna says, depression may reveal itself as touchiness and irritability rather than sadness.

The Chinese authorities’ touchiness means global outcries have a mixed record of securing better treatment of repressed groups.

In any case it could be very useful if you were quite happy, thank you, with social distancing when it comes to hugs and touchiness.

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

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