Crossword-Solution: TOUCHY
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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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
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.
Into the midst of this turbulent, touchy community, there fell one morning a word or two which set it on fire.
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.
These royalties are very touchy about other people's reputations." Well, I heard that often enough in the next few days.
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…
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…
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Slate, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1985–2020).