high-strung
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High-strung, perfectionistic, and irritating to everyone but each other, they’re over-the-top characters that the show throws in increasingly over-the-top circumstances.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2020
High-strung and irrepressible, George Jefferson quickly became one of America’s most popular television characters, a high-energy, combative black man who backed down to no one — something that had rarely been seen on television.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2012
High-strung, they are given to impatient, premature action.
From Time Magazine Archive
High-strung, persnickety, he raises potted plants and an ulcer.
From Time Magazine Archive
High-strung and unpredictable, the prison warden labeled him a "troublemaker."
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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