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View synonyms for touchy-feely

touchy-feely

[ tuhch-ee-fee-lee ]

adjective

  1. Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality:

    a touchy-feely encounter group.



touchy-feely

/ ˈtʌtʃɪˈfiːlɪ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    openly displaying one's emotions and affections
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈtouchy-ˈfeeliness, noun
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Example Sentences

He said that his client had sometimes behaved badly, calling him "touchy-feely".

From BBC

Mr Coppola denied the allegations, telling the New York Times in June: “I’m not touchy-feely. I’m too shy.”

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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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