Meanings of as touchy in inglês

Immigration is as touchy a subject in France as are profits without borders.

These Northbury people are as touchy as if they were somebodies.

He was as touchy as ever where Lorena was concerned.

Not that I thought he was as touchy as Silk.

In that respect they're almost as touchy as poets.

He was as touchy about his blessed principles as an old maid about her age.

June had flown out at him, or something; she was as touchy as she could be!

We were out in the fog this morning and it has made him as touchy as anything.

Academics could be as touchy as the military about hierarchies-andthe rules were a lot less clear-cut

FYI: you struck them as touchy first.

Regular human torpedoes, as touchy as gun-cotton.

It was as though they felt it beneath them to be as touchy as the less comprehending.

Yet many persons are as touchy about their opinions as though it were a sacrilege to dispute them.

I was thirty years old and as touchy as gunpowder, and felt the injustice of the charge like a knife-blade in my heart.

Tough old coots, who before the Changes wouldn't have yelped if they'd grabbed the wrong end of a chainsaw, suddenly got as touchy as babies.

"Upon my word," he said, "here I'm as touchy as a bard upon a mere phrase.