Crossword-Solution: TICKLISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ticklish | a. | Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. |
| Ticklish | a. | Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. |
| Ticklish | a. | Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “TICKLISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Touchy, in a way | 1 answer |
| Requiring great tact | 1 answer |
| Requiring a delicate touch | 1 answer |
| Of a cough causing a constant irritation in the throat | 1 answer |
| Like Elmo | 1 answer |
| kittle | 2 answers |
| Oversensitive | 3 answers |
| Hard to handle, in a way | 3 answers |
| pernickety | 12 answers |
| lubricious | 19 answers |
| dicey | 20 answers |
| Touch and go? | 43 answers |
| Inconsistent | 61 answers |
| Delicate | 65 answers |
| stormy | 76 answers |
| Signifi-cant | 85 answers |
| unstable | 87 answers |
| Dark | 112 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TICKLISH (5)
Nevertheless, the fact that the correspondence had been allowed to fall into strange hands would convict Selden of negligence in a matter where the world holds it least pardonable; and there were graver risks to consider where a man of Dorset’s ticklish balance was concerned.
For, apart from any ticklish temporal considerations, be it remembered, life is always claiming of this temperament's possessor that he write perfectly of beautiful happenings.
For instance, the following is a case in point, and one which John Barleycorn never wearied of reminding me: I had suffered an accident which required a ticklish operation.
And, indeed, I think he had some claim to be called saint; for, with the boats of that past age, to make so rough a passage, and land on such a ticklish coast, was surely not far short of the miraculous.
But after I got home I commenced thinkin' 'twas a pretty ticklish job to stick your nose into other people's business, an' every hour it got worse, until I ain't had a fairly decent sleep since.
Quotes with TICKLISH (3)
And one cried wee, wee, wee, all the way — "Jessica breaking down in a giggle as he reaches for the spot along her sweatered flank he knows she can't bear to be tickled in. She hunches, squirming, out of the way as he rolls past, bouncing off the back of the sofa but making a nice recovery, and by now she's ticklish all over, he can grab an ankle, elbow — But a rocket has suddenly struck. A terrific blast quite close beyond the village: the entire fabric of the air, the time,…
Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.
Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and then at last the great, stormy, faraway outside world. But sleep did not come. Oh, no! Nothing new came at all except that particularly wretched, itching type of insomnia which seems to rip away from one's body the whole kind, protecting skin and expose all the raw, ticklish fretwork of nerves to the mercy of a gritty blanket or a wrin…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2003–2005).