ticklish
adjective
sensitive to tickling.
ticklishly
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a word derived from
ticklish.
Example Sentences
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She is terrified of scary movies and has a ticklishly amusing podcast, “Ruined,” in which a friend, Halle Kiefer, explains the plots of horror films to her.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
The result is a knowing — or at least a ticklishly amusing — demonstration of celebrity and its relay of gazes from one of the most looked-at women in the world.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2015
It had been something ticklishly, devilishly fine—a bright and gorgeous episode in the monotony of life and labour on that bleak, fog-girt coast.
From John Barleycorn by Jack London
Often I have to ticklishly wobble along a narrow space between two yawning ruts, over ground that is anything but smooth.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
He then took the leap to the laundry coping, and thence the spring to the conductor, this being all the more ticklishly perilous because he could barely see it.
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
