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touchiness

noun as in testiness

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Example Sentences

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.

The touchiness appears to be hindering efforts to gather information about the strains in Iran.

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

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