highly strung

adjective

1. tense and easily upset; excitable; nervous

Example Sentences

Aimée Kelly plays the role with a winning blend of caustic humor and narcissistic self-pity: She’s highly strung, manipulative and insecure.

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Under the FMBA, with its direct reporting line to the Kremlin, Star City’s clinic was a highly strung place.

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My husband is, obviously, a liberal, and liberals are pretty highly strung these days.

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I haven’t had much of a backlash from my friendship cull so far, apart from one angry, highly strung former school friend who sent a flurry of unpleasant messages after I unfriended her.

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But he says he respects the comics who dodge politics to avoid “an audience member getting offended or too highly strung”.

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