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Significados de touchy en inglés

Quick to take offense.

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Difficult to handle; requiring great tact.

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Examples for "delicate"
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I thought for a moment on how to answer Evon's delicate question.
The ghost chronicles
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The delicate manoeuvres necessary to pilot through change simply take too long.
The Irish Times
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In Greece's increasingly tense political environment the politics of food is delicate.
The Guardian
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I asked, sort of a delicate way of not answering her question.
The Kingmaker
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The event was a sign of the delicate power balance in Iraq.
Reuters
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These royalists are in a ticklish position; I can tell her that.
White Lies
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You're not ticklish, are you? He pulled himself forward hand over hand.
Divide and Rule
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It was a ticklish job, saddling the pony for the first time.
The red pony
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He was at the first obstacle, the foremost of several ticklish crossroads.
Dayworld
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This also had been of help to them in several ticklish situations.
The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of Hist...
Uso de touchy en inglés
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Unfortunately, Laura had brought up what apparently was a very touchy subject.
Battlestar Galactica
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It's the touchy-feely bit that the agency will need to consider seriously.
Wired
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Quinn wasn't good at touchy-feely, especially in the middle of a trial.
By reason of insanity
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And tackling touchy events doesn't have to have a long historical context.
The Irish Times
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Artists were so touchy-feely-itwas impossible to tell what they actually meant.
Wicked
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The Nablus bloodshed was especially touchy for Abbas given the Fatah connection.
Reuters
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But now it was banks, who were notoriously touchy on the subject.
All the way
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That's where the millionaires come in, raising the touchy issue of pay-for-play.
Wired
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Complicating matters further is that it is potentially a very touchy subject.
News.com.au
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Corporate tax is an increasingly touchy topic as indebted governments cut budgets.
Reuters
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This was touchy stuff, asking a journalist to divulge information before publication.
Eye of vengeance
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It is naturally something of a touchy topic between them, Trudy's Project.
Those who save us
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If the data bankers think it's too touchy, they'll quit the search.
Dayworld Rebel
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Thomas still didn't understand why she was being so touchy with him.
The Scorch Trials
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You know, Robert, the thing about fireworks is that they're touchy, unpredictable.
Running with the Demon
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But a Pathan is always touchy about matters of honour and horseflesh.
The mandala of sherlock holmes: the missing years
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