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touchy-feely

/tuhch-ee-fee-lee/US // ˈtʌtʃ iˈfi li //UK // (ˈtʌtʃɪˈfiːlɪ) //

柔情似水,感情丰富的,柔情似水的,感情丰富

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.

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Examples

  • There are plenty of touchy subjects I am happy to discuss with my patients and their families.

  • And second, movies are a particularly touchy subject for the Hermit Kingdom.

  • Nobody else was as forthright with me about this touchy topic.

  • Feely also indicated that the TOW was reliable, citing he had never seen a misfire during his four-year enlistment.

  • “Not much the user has to do to keep it functioning besides keep it dust-free and the [sight] lens clean,” Feely said.

  • For goodness' sake, don't take to gettin' touchy like some people are!

  • No small stint I had of it too; for he was peevish and touchy as a young badger.

  • Yet the intrinsic quality of the event moved his touchy sensitiveness less than its conjectured effect upon the minds of others.

  • We been hearing down at the camp you were so mighty touchy you didn't allow a man within a rod of the line.

  • The boney finger moved inward from the trigger guard and closed ever so gently about the touchy, hair-filed trigger—then waited.