ticklish
ti kuh lish
- s difficult to handle; requiring great tact
hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter
- But the passage of months took some of the sting out of the scandals, and last week Dilworth found his way out of another ticklish situation: he had just achieved a hiatus in a .
- Alessandro Bianchi AFP Getty host will tell you that the guest list can be a ticklish issue.
- Clement Attlee was impressed by Ismay too, and sent him to India as Viceroy Mountbatten's chief of staff in the ticklish days when Britain handed over power to the Indians.