Crossword-Solution: TOUCHY 6 letters, 62 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Touchy a. Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.

We have 62 clues for the answer “TOUCHY”

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Thin-skinned 2 answers
Easily riled 2 answers
Quick to take offense 2 answers
Oversensitive 3 answers
Easily offended 5 answers
SORE to the touch 10 answers
AN IRRITABLE PETULANT FEELING 10 answers
Feisty 11 answers
tetchy 14 answers
Syrupy. 15 answers
traumatic 18 answers
acuminate 18 answers
Waspish 19 answers
ACICULAR 21 answers
Embarrassing 23 answers
Tenuous 26 answers
in a bad mood 31 answers
shattering 33 answers
trying 34 answers
Tearful 35 answers
byronic 40 answers
Touch and go? 43 answers
snarly 48 answers
Sore 54 answers
undeterminable 55 answers
contestable 56 answers
incredulous 57 answers
disputed 58 answers
circumstantial 59 answers
Arguable 60 answers
Probable 61 answers
possible 61 answers
Utopian 61 answers
Unprotected 64 answers
Inopportune 67 answers
Gruff 67 answers
Nervous 67 answers
conditional 68 answers
Vulnerable 69 answers
Sentimental 69 answers
frustrated 71 answers
Ennui 72 answers
fed up 72 answers
Explosive 74 answers
irksome 74 answers
bored 76 answers
Testy 77 answers
sensitive 77 answers
Grumpy 78 answers
complex 78 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TOUCHY (5)

Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimized by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
His genial personality and ability to convey the subtleties of a complex piece of software using actual demonstrations from his music were the touchy-feely the investors wanted.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Into the midst of this turbulent, touchy community, there fell one morning a word or two which set it on fire.
Remember the Alamo Amelia E. Barr 2008
Such a discovery comes to either a nation or an individual like a douche of cold water on nice, warm conceit, and brings with it a feeling of discouragement, of being unjustly treated, that is painful, for we are very “touchy” in America, and cry out when a foreigner expresses anything but admiration for our ways, yet we are the last to lend ourselves to foreign customs.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
These royalties are very touchy about other people's reputations." Well, I heard that often enough in the next few days.
Where There's A Will Mary Roberts Rinehart 2006

Quotes with TOUCHY (3)

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. Love is not possessive. Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas. Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. Love is not touchy. Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails. Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end t…
Elisabeth Elliot Let Me be a Woman
Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes, thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd…
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Saul is as different from Simon Wakefield as it's possible to get, I find myself thinking. And Edward Monkford is utterly different from both of them. It seems incredible that Emma could have had relationships with all three men. Where Simon's eager to please, but also touchy and insecure, and Edward's calm and super-confident, Saul is pushy and brash and loud. He also has a habit of saying 'Yeah?' aggressively at the end of his sentences, as if trying to force me to agree with him.
J.P. Delaney The Girl Before
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Slate, WSJ.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1985–2020).