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Significats de touchiness en anglès

Feeling easily irritated.

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Examples for "testiness"
Examples for "testiness"
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Galway hastened to call after the Doge in apology for his testiness.
Over the Pass
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This could prompt a little testiness on your part, especially with partners.
Ebony
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His fleshy face betrayed a testiness that his dark eyes immediately confirmed.
The charlemagne pursuit
4
The management consultant decided that testiness was what the situation now called for.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
5
The lady of honor with affected testiness addressed the Sleeping Beauty.
Everychild / A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young an...
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After two days of tetchiness, the public saw the much-discussed decency.
The Guardian
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The frustration and tetchiness of the political leaders were tangible.
The Irish Times
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Leysen pursed his lips, pausing for a moment to take note of her tetchiness.
Long time coming: a novel
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Two Vatican documents have been the occasion for this new manifestation of ecumenical "tetchiness".
The Irish Times
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Just the odd cramp, or a little tetchiness.
Moonburn
Ús de touchiness en anglès
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I was still too sick to concern myself with other people's touchiness.
Venus In Copper
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The desert regions of the West seemed always to breed truculence and touchiness.
The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado
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Allow me to tell you, that your petulance and touchiness are almost incredible.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 07
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It had all the interests and all the touchiness of a State, and more.
The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social R...
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However that may be, you shall never be able to reproach me for touchiness.
A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
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There was an unusual touchiness in the young doctor's voice.
Wild Wings: A Romance of Youth
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Yet his touchiness was hardening into a persecution complex.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
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Then she told me that is the way she judges their advance, according to their touchiness.
Elizabeth Visits America
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In spite of poverty, touchiness and vanity characteristic of the modern Greek, there is good stuff in him.
The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915
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There was a simplicity in the man which would have disarmed a touchiness even more youthful than mine.
The Shadow Line: A Confession
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She is the only woman I know or have ever known without smallness or touchiness of any kind.
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
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Was that touchiness in his voice?
American empire: blood and iron
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With a flare of teenage touchiness.
Mad enough to marry
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Jealousy, anger, pride, uncharity, cruelty, self-righteousness, touchiness, doggedness, sullenness-theseare the ingredients of this dark and loveless soul.
Addresses by Henry Drummond
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Solitude had developed in him a spinsterish touchiness, and now he was deriving a morbid pleasure from feeling hurt.
Laughter in the dark
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Is it the touchiness of--?
Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
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