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touchy-feely

adjective as in demonstrative

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He said that his client had sometimes behaved badly, calling him "touchy-feely".

From BBC

Mr Coppola denied the allegations, telling the New York Times in June: “I’m not touchy-feely. I’m too shy.”

From BBC

She’s touchy-feely with her female friends — linking arms, sitting close — but she doesn’t do that with her married male friends.

“This sort of thing sounds touchy-feely,” like a bunch of people sitting around talking about how they communicate, Madsen said.

And admittedly, it all sounds touchy-feely and nebulous, like we are about to spend a bunch on money on holding criminals’ hands while they talk about their childhoods and get their GED.

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

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