Meanings of touchiness in English

I was still too sick to concern myself with other people's touchiness.

The desert regions of the West seemed always to breed truculence and touchiness.

Allow me to tell you, that your petulance and touchiness are almost incredible.

It had all the interests and all the touchiness of a State, and more.

However that may be, you shall never be able to reproach me for touchiness.

There was an unusual touchiness in the young doctor's voice.

Yet his touchiness was hardening into a persecution complex.

Then she told me that is the way she judges their advance, according to their touchiness.

In spite of poverty, touchiness and vanity characteristic of the modern Greek, there is good stuff in him.

There was a simplicity in the man which would have disarmed a touchiness even more youthful than mine.

She is the only woman I know or have ever known without smallness or touchiness of any kind.

Was that touchiness in his voice?

With a flare of teenage touchiness.

Jealousy, anger, pride, uncharity, cruelty, self-righteousness, touchiness, doggedness, sullenness-theseare the ingredients of this dark and loveless soul.

Solitude had developed in him a spinsterish touchiness, and now he was deriving a morbid pleasure from feeling hurt.

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