touchy-feely

[ tuhch-ee-fee-lee ]

/ ˈtʌtʃ iˈfi li /

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adjective

Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.

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Words nearby touchy-feely

touch-tone, touch-type, touch-up, touchwood, touchy, touchy-feely, Touggourt, tough, tough break, toughen, toughie

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How to use touchy-feely in a sentence

There are plenty of touchy subjects I am happy to discuss with my patients and their families.
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And second, movies are a particularly touchy subject for the Hermit Kingdom.
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Nobody else was as forthright with me about this touchy topic.
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Feely also indicated that the TOW was reliable, citing he had never seen a misfire during his four-year enlistment.
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“Not much the user has to do to keep it functioning besides keep it dust-free and the [sight] lens clean,” Feely said.
The Big Weapons that the U.S. May Be Secretly Supplying to the Syrian Rebels|Thomas Gibbons-Neff|April 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For goodness' sake, don't take to gettin' touchy like some people are!
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No small stint I had of it too; for he was peevish and touchy as a young badger.
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Yet the intrinsic quality of the event moved his touchy sensitiveness less than its conjectured effect upon the minds of others.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles|Thomas Hardy
We been hearing down at the camp you were so mighty touchy you didn't allow a man within a rod of the line.
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The boney finger moved inward from the trigger guard and closed ever so gently about the touchy, hair-filed trigger—then waited.
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British Dictionary definitions for touchy-feely

touchy-feely

/ (ˈtʌtʃɪˈfiːlɪ) /

adjective

informal, sometimes derogatory openly displaying one's emotions and affections

Derived forms of touchy-feely

touchy-feeliness, noun

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