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Definition of touchy-feely in English: touchy-feelyadjective derogatory, informal 1Openly expressing affection or other emotions. 〈非正式，常贬〉感情外露的（尤指通过身体接触表达爱意或其他感情的） touchy-feely guys calling home to talk baby talk to their kids 打电话回家用幼儿口气与孩子交流的感情外露的家伙们。 Example sentencesExamples - We are not a lovey-dovey, touchy-feely family, and I wouldn't want us to be.
- However, I think that perhaps Scots men should learn to be a bit more touchy-feely and diplomatic, say for example when they are shopping with their wives.
- Although generally quite a touchy-feely person, I never back away from physical interaction, unless, particularly, that physical interaction should be focused on the eyeball.
- So, while everyone below me is allowed to be distraught and upset and embarrassed, and while everyone above me is allowed to get all touchy-feely with their own emotions about what I must be going through, I'm not allowed to do anything.
- Certain things I'm glad to be rid of, like the hand-holding, wishy-washy, touchy-feely staff that coddles the kids who cause trouble and psychoanalyze the victims of the trouble makers.
- Whether seated at piano or perched on stool with guitar, the sensitive songstress has presented pleas for a similarly sensitive male - touchy-feely, open, kind and loving.
- I'm busting myself going on every audition that I'm remotely right for, and you dump a perfectly good job because some old guy gets a little touchy-feely.
- I guess I'm a lot more of a touchy-feely guy than I thought I was.
- Even having grown up in a very loving, touchy-feely family, too much contact made me feel antsy, so eventually I gave one last, pitiful sniffle, told myself to get a grip, and pulled away.
- For years he's been saying that boys are sick of being bossed about by liberated mothers, and of being brainwashed into becoming touchy-feely drips who grow up to wear earrings, go shopping and get their chest hair waxed.
- Try to express such anger today, and what happens: touchy-feely politicians get up on a platform intended for dissidents, and bloody well agree with you.
- He's fresh, an internationalist and touchy-feely with the electorate.
- Wow, you're getting pretty touchy-feely, Neal.
- But, of course, Democrats have the opposite problem: Moderates - particularly white males - think Democrats are too touchy-feely and soft.
- She is just not terribly touchy-feely, and never has been.
- If someone is very touchy-feely and enjoys displays of affection, they'll look for those specific cues because that's how they express love.
- The more than 100,000 employees he downsized can testify that he is not a touchy-feely kind of guy.
- So hats off to the band for going ahead with the film - particularly as they come across not as the fearsome rock warriors of popular image but a bunch of self-regarding, touchy-feely sissies.
- There's been nothing since, suggesting that Fianna Fail's more touchy-feely members were no longer sure how they should express themselves in public.
- Instead, the new campaign is all about touchy-feely dads competing in school sports days and non-conformist, caring soldiers.
- The star says he isn't a touchy-feely person but besotted girls queue up to cuddle him.
Synonyms adoring, loving, amorous, besotted, infatuated, lovesick, passionate - 1.1 Characteristic of or relating to the open expression of emotion.
有感情外露特点的；与感情外露有关的 such touchy-feely topics as employees' personal values 像雇员个人价值观这样的感情外露的话题。 Example sentencesExamples - It somehow seemed gentler, more touchy-feely, and, well, sweeter - that is, until I realized that it would entail a bit more hardcore complexity than I'd bargained for.
- But in truth, offering us more choice in how we connect with one another does nothing to redress imbalances of power, especially when social relationships are established in such a touchy-feely way.
- You mortals and your touchy-feely lovey-dovey emotions.
- In Mitchell's crafty hands, the bawdy drawings become kaleidoscopic fun-fur mosaics: deliciously touchy-feely, rather than puerile or self-consciously lewd.
- Naturally, the show has its share of touchy-feely and maudlin moments, and the sort of self-examination that some of us would have a hard time acknowledging to ourselves, let alone sharing with thousands of strangers.
- Television has done the touchy-feely stuff on these sons, daughters and wives in the fray, but the print media has provided the range and depth, documenting state by state the number of political families successfully grooming heirs.
- And, although this touchy-feely motion picture transforms Redford's character into a human being, he starts out as an unapologetic misanthrope.
- The thing is, me being involved with interviews and such, helps dilutes the Left's touchy-feely maternal embrace angle.
- Some said frankly that instead of a day spent on something as touchy-feely as personal development, they should have had more time on educationally-driven sessions, on something such as the Higher Still syllabus.
- Once viewed as a touchy-feely topic relegated to the human resources department, leadership development is now seen as a business tool that gives companies a competitive advantage.
- It is a mental discipline: it trains us to think clearly - a skill largely lost in today's emotive, touchy-feely age.
- Last Sunday's Seeing Red told the truish story of Ms Atkins, the 1970s TV star-turned-hopelessly romantic, idealistic owner of a touchy-feely free-range children's home.
- It's Britain's latest touchy-feely anti-drugs campaign.
- The frozen-hearted never enjoy touchy-feely displays of emotion, like hugs.
- It's a real touchy-feely place in terms of affection and warmth.
- Well, of course, this is compassion night, touchy-feely night at the Republican National Convention.
- As one who works primarily with youth from the public schools, I see that they live in a pluralistic world, out of touch with both the touchy-feely liberalism and the outward trappings of Tridentine piety.
- And your feel-good announcement that you've joined some touchy-feely emotional management group does nothing for me.
- Perhaps this can all be traced to the hand-holding, touchy-feely pop psychology that has penetrated our schools, our office buildings and our doctor's offices.
- Like his son, his downfall was that he didn't have a ‘support system,’ a phrase that sounds alarmingly touchy-feely for a guy who cringes at the idea of emotional baggage
Synonyms caring, kind, kindly, kind-hearted, soft-hearted, tender-hearted, compassionate, sympathetic, warm, warm-hearted, feeling, fatherly, motherly, maternal, gentle, mild, benevolent, generous, giving, humane
Definition of touchy-feely in US English: touchy-feelyadjectiveˌtəCHēˈfēlēˌtətʃiˈfili derogatory, informal 1Openly expressing affection or other emotions, especially through physical contact. 〈非正式，常贬〉感情外露的（尤指通过身体接触表达爱意或其他感情的） touchy-feely guys calling home to talk baby talk to their kids 打电话回家用幼儿口气与孩子交流的感情外露的家伙们。 Example sentencesExamples - Even having grown up in a very loving, touchy-feely family, too much contact made me feel antsy, so eventually I gave one last, pitiful sniffle, told myself to get a grip, and pulled away.
- The star says he isn't a touchy-feely person but besotted girls queue up to cuddle him.
- For years he's been saying that boys are sick of being bossed about by liberated mothers, and of being brainwashed into becoming touchy-feely drips who grow up to wear earrings, go shopping and get their chest hair waxed.
- So, while everyone below me is allowed to be distraught and upset and embarrassed, and while everyone above me is allowed to get all touchy-feely with their own emotions about what I must be going through, I'm not allowed to do anything.
- So hats off to the band for going ahead with the film - particularly as they come across not as the fearsome rock warriors of popular image but a bunch of self-regarding, touchy-feely sissies.
- But, of course, Democrats have the opposite problem: Moderates - particularly white males - think Democrats are too touchy-feely and soft.
- I guess I'm a lot more of a touchy-feely guy than I thought I was.
- If someone is very touchy-feely and enjoys displays of affection, they'll look for those specific cues because that's how they express love.
- Although generally quite a touchy-feely person, I never back away from physical interaction, unless, particularly, that physical interaction should be focused on the eyeball.
- Try to express such anger today, and what happens: touchy-feely politicians get up on a platform intended for dissidents, and bloody well agree with you.
- There's been nothing since, suggesting that Fianna Fail's more touchy-feely members were no longer sure how they should express themselves in public.
- Whether seated at piano or perched on stool with guitar, the sensitive songstress has presented pleas for a similarly sensitive male - touchy-feely, open, kind and loving.
- Wow, you're getting pretty touchy-feely, Neal.
- I'm busting myself going on every audition that I'm remotely right for, and you dump a perfectly good job because some old guy gets a little touchy-feely.
- Certain things I'm glad to be rid of, like the hand-holding, wishy-washy, touchy-feely staff that coddles the kids who cause trouble and psychoanalyze the victims of the trouble makers.
- The more than 100,000 employees he downsized can testify that he is not a touchy-feely kind of guy.
- However, I think that perhaps Scots men should learn to be a bit more touchy-feely and diplomatic, say for example when they are shopping with their wives.
- She is just not terribly touchy-feely, and never has been.
- We are not a lovey-dovey, touchy-feely family, and I wouldn't want us to be.
- He's fresh, an internationalist and touchy-feely with the electorate.
- Instead, the new campaign is all about touchy-feely dads competing in school sports days and non-conformist, caring soldiers.
Synonyms adoring, loving, amorous, besotted, infatuated, lovesick, passionate - 1.1 Characteristic relating to touchy-feely behavior.
有感情外露特点的；与感情外露有关的 such touchy-feely topics as employees' personal values 像雇员个人价值观这样的感情外露的话题。 Example sentencesExamples - It somehow seemed gentler, more touchy-feely, and, well, sweeter - that is, until I realized that it would entail a bit more hardcore complexity than I'd bargained for.
- Perhaps this can all be traced to the hand-holding, touchy-feely pop psychology that has penetrated our schools, our office buildings and our doctor's offices.
- Once viewed as a touchy-feely topic relegated to the human resources department, leadership development is now seen as a business tool that gives companies a competitive advantage.
- And, although this touchy-feely motion picture transforms Redford's character into a human being, he starts out as an unapologetic misanthrope.
- The frozen-hearted never enjoy touchy-feely displays of emotion, like hugs.
- But in truth, offering us more choice in how we connect with one another does nothing to redress imbalances of power, especially when social relationships are established in such a touchy-feely way.
- As one who works primarily with youth from the public schools, I see that they live in a pluralistic world, out of touch with both the touchy-feely liberalism and the outward trappings of Tridentine piety.
- The thing is, me being involved with interviews and such, helps dilutes the Left's touchy-feely maternal embrace angle.
- Television has done the touchy-feely stuff on these sons, daughters and wives in the fray, but the print media has provided the range and depth, documenting state by state the number of political families successfully grooming heirs.
- Like his son, his downfall was that he didn't have a ‘support system,’ a phrase that sounds alarmingly touchy-feely for a guy who cringes at the idea of emotional baggage
- You mortals and your touchy-feely lovey-dovey emotions.
- Naturally, the show has its share of touchy-feely and maudlin moments, and the sort of self-examination that some of us would have a hard time acknowledging to ourselves, let alone sharing with thousands of strangers.
- Some said frankly that instead of a day spent on something as touchy-feely as personal development, they should have had more time on educationally-driven sessions, on something such as the Higher Still syllabus.
- It's Britain's latest touchy-feely anti-drugs campaign.
- It's a real touchy-feely place in terms of affection and warmth.
- Well, of course, this is compassion night, touchy-feely night at the Republican National Convention.
- Last Sunday's Seeing Red told the truish story of Ms Atkins, the 1970s TV star-turned-hopelessly romantic, idealistic owner of a touchy-feely free-range children's home.
- And your feel-good announcement that you've joined some touchy-feely emotional management group does nothing for me.
- In Mitchell's crafty hands, the bawdy drawings become kaleidoscopic fun-fur mosaics: deliciously touchy-feely, rather than puerile or self-consciously lewd.
- It is a mental discipline: it trains us to think clearly - a skill largely lost in today's emotive, touchy-feely age.
Synonyms caring, kind, kindly, kind-hearted, soft-hearted, tender-hearted, compassionate, sympathetic, warm, warm-hearted, feeling, fatherly, motherly, maternal, gentle, mild, benevolent, generous, giving, humane
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