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touchy-feely
[ tuhch-ee-fee-lee ]
adjective
- Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality:
a touchy-feely encounter group.
touchy-feely
/ ˈtʌtʃɪˈfiːlɪ /
adjective
- informal.openly displaying one's emotions and affections
Derived Forms
- ˈtouchy-ˈfeeliness, noun
Example Sentences
He said that his client had sometimes behaved badly, calling him "touchy-feely".
Mr Coppola denied the allegations, telling the New York Times in June: “I’m not touchy-feely. I’m too shy.”
She’s touchy-feely with her female friends — linking arms, sitting close — but she doesn’t do that with her married male friends.
“This sort of thing sounds touchy-feely,” like a bunch of people sitting around talking about how they communicate, Madsen said.
And admittedly, it all sounds touchy-feely and nebulous, like we are about to spend a bunch on money on holding criminals’ hands while they talk about their childhoods and get their GED.
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