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
- capricious
- changeable
- dizzy
- dubious
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- giddy
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- insecure
- irrational
- lubricious
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- mutable
- not fixed
- precarious
- rickety
- risky
- rocky
- sensitive
- shaky
- shifty
- slippery
- suspect
- teetering
- temperamental
- ticklish
- tottery
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsettled
- unsteady
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- variable
- volatile
- wavering
- weak
- weaving
- wiggly
- wobbly
- ambiguous
- borderline
- capricious
- changeable
- dizzy
- dubious
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- giddy
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- insecure
- irrational
- lubricious
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- mutable
- not fixed
- precarious
- rickety
- risky
- rocky
- sensitive
- shaky
- shifty
- slippery
- suspect
- teetering
- temperamental
- ticklish
- tottering
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsettled
- unsteady
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- variable
- volatile
- wavering
- weak
- weaving
- wiggly
- wobbly
- bad-tempered
- bundle of nerves
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- delicate
- dicey
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hazardous
- hypersensitive
- irascible
- irritable
- jumpy
- mean
- ornery
- oversensitive
- peevish
- perturbable
- pettish
- petulant
- precarious
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- risky
- sensitive
- splenetic
- surly
- temperamental
- testy
- thin-skinned
- ticklish
- tricky
- unpredictable
- unsafe
- uptight
- volatile
- wired up
- wound-up
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