touchiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touchiness
Noun
  • Meta's approach includes warning screens, sensitivity filters and age restrictions.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • After treatment, mild soreness or sensitivity is common for a few days as the surrounding tissues heal.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • If senior figures display rudeness or disrespect, employees may assume that such behavior is acceptable, making selective enforcement seem arbitrary and undermining of trust.
    Andrew Binns, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With nearly 400 responses recounting long waits for a check to outright rudeness, customers detailed what pushes them from their usual tipping habits to a complete cutoff.
    Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • When faced with Laura’s hostility, what can Cherry do but lose her mind, smash a glass against her head, and tell Daniel that his mother did it?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The conflict between Israel and Palestine was dividing friends, sparking tensions, and fueling rising acts of hostility.
    Rchin Bari, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe there won’t be any animosity at all.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Having established Laura and Cherry’s mutual animosity right away, The Girlfriend pushes them steadily toward that confrontation teased in the first moments.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.
    Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.
    Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Heading in, Republicans don’t seem eager to echo the antagonism from the right.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Daniel finally gets the full scope of their antagonism, which means their burden is now to convince him of their righteousness.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Both Erica and the Gorn overcame their antipathy.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Heritage and its founder Edwin Feulner are the antipathy of conservativism.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Touchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touchiness. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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