touchiness

Example Sentences

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In preadolescent children, Fortuna says, depression may reveal itself as touchiness and irritability rather than sadness.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

In any case it could be very useful if you were quite happy, thank you, with social distancing when it comes to hugs and touchiness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

The datedness of the jibe about Lacan may suggest a long-nurtured touchiness.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2020

They occasionally display the level of touchiness and desire for privacy one might normally expect of, say, Blanche DuBois.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2019

So that she had shaken him off—with too much impatience, no doubt, and too little consideration for the touchiness of his temper.

From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.