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Definition of Touchiest
1. touchy [adj] - See also: touchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touchiest
Literary usage of Touchiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"Each commune was as jealous of its rights of ownership as the touchiest of
squires ; but, so long as the population was as scanty in proportion to the ..."
2. The Century (1902)
"Never once was there a word spoken by him which could offend the touchiest of
touchy geniuses. With unending patience, by his own example chiefly, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"Each commune was as jealous of its rights of ownership as the touchiest of
squires ; but, so long as the population was as scanty in proportion to the ..."
4. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"We are given to understand that he was one of the touchiest men, resenting the
slightest unfavourable allusion to his work. This portraiture makes us ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1817)
"... be laid before iL¡' House, copies of all rule* m tlie Court of Exchequer,
touchiest tí« ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1874)
"... there was nothing of the old provoking peremptoriness in his manner, nothing
that the touchiest younger brother could possibly resent. ..."
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