touchiness

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Noun
  • While price sensitivity doesn’t usually affect luxury buyers, as previously explained by Randall Holcombe, professor of economics at Florida State University, to WWD, some other factors can impact the sale of Swiss brands in the U.S., including fear of a recession and market volatility.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • For various examples and further detailed indications about the nature and use of AI sensitivities prompting, see my coverage at the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Sure, the product is important, but kindness—the opposite of rudeness and apathy—is what keeps them coming back.
    Shep Hyken, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Justifying one rudeness by citing another is ruder.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Stolarz’s inclination to shout instructions at teammates on the ice, often with serious levels of hostility in the name of competition, comes to him naturally.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Datta writes that Indians had faced violent treatment at the hands of Japanese forces, even if the Chinese community bore the brunt of the Japanese hostility.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The animosity between the rival factions — one backing President Salva Kiir and another backing his deputy Riek Machar — has threatened to upheave the already shaky 2018 peace deal after dozens were killed following Machar’s recent arrest late last month, according to the outlet.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Duke may be one of the most celebrated programs in college basketball, but that admiration comes with just as much animosity.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.
    Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.
    Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • There’s still no ceasefire over the physical remains of the Houston Oilers, now the Titans, and the ongoing feud is defined by petty antagonism and proxy wars.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • But to get up and running, Valley Link needs more state and regional funding, especially considering the Trump administration’s antagonism toward environmentally friendly projects.
    Jerry McNerney, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Netanyahu, in short, is not as popular as his antipathies.
    Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Notably the administration has been silent on its intentions towards China, which strikes me as odd given that many members of the administration are united in their antipathy towards America’s geostrategic rivalry (Marco Rubio for example published ‘The World China Made’).
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Touchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touchiness. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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