List of synonyms from "touch base with" to synonyms from "toughness"


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Definition of the day : « touchy »

  • adj easily offended
Example sentences :
  • These Cape Codders are self-respecting and touchy, you know.
  • Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Besides, he's a touchy person, and my husband is most tenacious regarding him.
  • Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever
  • I have taken pains with the dialogue, and made it as sharp and touchy as I could.
  • Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey
  • Tim often said he would be a soldier when he came to be a man, and was touchy on the point.
  • Extract from : « Kilgorman » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • For goodness' sake, don't take to gettin' touchy like some people are!
  • Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
  • No small stint I had of it too; for he was peevish and touchy as a young badger.
  • Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
  • I'm not touchy, goodness knows, but afterall a name's a piece of property.
  • Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
  • Mr. Brown took to his bed in the lodge, and Mr. Traill was touchy in his temper.
  • Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson
  • "People are so touchy on these occasions," said his majesty.
  • Extract from : « Prince Prigio » by Andrew Lang
  • He was huffy in a moment; I never knew a man so touchy about an aunt.
  • Extract from : « Three Men on the Bummel » by Jerome K. Jerome