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• n  feeling easily irritated

• Showing none of the pardonable touchiness with which the Chinese, at times, protest their ability to get along without foreign help after the war, the Roman Catholic Bishop and.
• My opponent's touchiness every time he is questioned about his record should make us only more concerned.
• Also, Administration policymakers, in a fit of touchiness about neutralist opinion, wanted to avoid any appearance of using IGY undertakings for military purposes.

• testiness
• tetchiness

Quotes

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• John McCain in New York Times
  Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there's always a back story with Senator Obama,Mr. McCain said, speaking in Albuquerque. "My opponent's touchiness every time he is questioned about his record should make us only more concerned."