touchy
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Instead, she at first finds Mr. Hamm’s “Mad Men” costar, a touchy John Slattery, living out of his garage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
The creation — and Carter’s expansion — of Redwood National Park has long been a touchy subject along California’s rural, economically depressed North Coast, where the once-thriving logging industry cratered over the last half-century.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
"He captures Dylan's craning stance and the way he used hair and sunglasses as a mask, the insistent buzz and keen of his speaking and singing voice and the odd, touchy, insularity."
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024
Do business people want to see that horse, now creaking with age and even more touchy and unpredictable, let loose in the ICU all over again?
From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024
When the man they called Hunters Hunter knew her—tended her—she was touchy.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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The Catcher in the Rye
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