Thesaurus / ticklish
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I ran my thumb across my sole and felt a jolting, ticklish sensation I later learned meant I had nerve damage.
DO FKTS MISS THE POINT?COBRIENDECEMBER 7, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEHere am I, trying to get you out of a mighty ticklish situation, and you go and get funny.
FIFTY CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYSVARIOUSHe knows a lot of useful stuff, and these are ticklish times.'
SARAH'S SCHOOL FRIENDMAY BALDWINHe settled back on his haunches and gave a little thought to the matter, and understood that he had a ticklish job ahead of him.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYIt was a ticklish business recovering the sledge which hung suspended in the crevasse.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONIt164 would have been a ticklish business to make one's way along the deck then, he thought.
TOM SLADE WITH THE COLORSPERCY K. FITZHUGHI have been in many ticklish places, but I never got into one where I was worse stumped than I was that night.
SHADOW, THE MYSTERIOUS DETECTIVEPOLICE CAPTAIN HOWARD"Bread sauce is so ticklish; a simmer too much and it's clean done for," Mrs. Baker said with a voice of great solicitude.
ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPEBrowning says that it is a ticklish matter to play with souls, but Lady Ellington did not stand convicted over this.
THE ANGEL OF PAINE. F. BENSONIf there was the least suspicion of a sea over the reef it was indeed a ticklish task landing or embarking stores and men.
THE PILLAR OF LIGHTLOUIS TRACYWORDS RELATED TO TICKLISH
- ambiguous
- borderline
- chancy
- contingent
- dangerous
- delicate
- dicey
- dubious
- dynamite
- equivocal
- hairy
- hanging by a thread
- hazardous
- iffy
- impugnable
- indecisive
- insecure
- loaded
- on thin ice
- open
- out on a limb
- perilous
- problematic
- risky
- rocky
- rugged
- sensitive
- shaky
- slippery
- ticklish
- touch and go
- touchy
- uncertain
- unhealthy
- unreliable
- unsafe
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- chancy
- delicate
- dicey
- endangered
- fraught with danger
- going for broke
- hairy
- hanging by a thread
- hazardous
- iffy
- insecure
- jeopardous
- long shot
- not a prayer
- off the deep end
- on slippery ground
- on thin ice
- on-the-spot
- out on a limb
- perilous
- playing with fire
- precarious
- rocky
- sensitive
- speculative
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- tricky
- uncertain
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unsound
- venturesome
- wicked
- wide-open
- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- high-strung
- hung up
- hypersensitive
- impressible
- irritable
- keen
- knowing
- nervous
- oversensitive
- perceiving
- perceptive
- precarious
- precise
- psychic
- reactive
- receptive
- responsive
- seeing
- sensatory
- sensile
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- supersensitive
- susceptible
- tense
- ticklish
- touchy
- touchy feely
- tricky
- tuned-in
- turned on to
- umbrageous
- understanding
- unstable
- wired
- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- high-strung
- hung up
- hypersensitive
- impressible
- impressionable
- irritable
- keen
- knowing
- nervous
- oversensitive
- perceiving
- perceptive
- precarious
- precise
- psychic
- reactive
- receptive
- responsive
- seeing
- sensatory
- sensible
- sensile
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- supersensitive
- susceptible
- tense
- ticklish
- touchy
- touchy feely
- tricky
- tuned-in
- turned on to
- umbrageous
- understanding
- unstable
- wired
- capricious
- changeable
- cussed
- easily upset
- emotional
- erratic
- excitable
- explosive
- fickle
- fiery
- froward
- headstrong
- high-strung
- hotheaded
- hyper
- hypersensitive
- impatient
- in bad mood
- inconsistent
- irritable
- mean
- mercurial
- moody
- neurotic
- ornery
- passionate
- petulant
- sensitive
- thin-skinned
- ticklish
- touchy
- uncertain
- undependable
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unstable
- variable
- volatile
- willful
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