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Significados de touchy em inglês

Quick to take offense.

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Difficult to handle; requiring great tact.

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Uso de touchy em inglês
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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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