touchy-feely
[tuhch-ee-fee-lee]
- Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.
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And so every presidential campaign of the television age has pushed the touchy-feely button.
Nursing is touchy-feely, and America is squeamish about anything touchy-feely outside of sex and art.
It avoids that treacly, touchy-feely ground on which Democrats so love to walk.
We are uncomfortable having the “touchy-feely” conversations with our buddies about sadness and guilt and stress.
The Killing of a Park Ranger on Mount Rainier Reminds Us to Help Returning SoldiersBenjamin Tupper
January 3, 2012
touchy-feely
- informal, sometimes derogatory openly displaying one's emotions and affections
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