Quick to take offense.
synonyms: feisty, huffy, touchy.
Roget 868:
fastidious,
nice,
delicate,
delicat†,
finical,
finicky,
demanding,
meticulous,
exacting,
strict,
anal [Vulg.],
difficult,
dainty,
lickerish†,
squeamish,
thin-skinned;
squeasy†,
queasy;
hard to please,
difficult to please;
querulous,
particular,
straitlaced,
scrupulous;
censorious
etc.
932;
hypercritical;
overcritical.
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Roget 901:
irascible;
bad-tempered,
ill-tempered;
irritable,
susceptible;
excitable
etc.
825;
thin-skinned
etc.
(sensitive)
822;
fretful,
fidgety;
on the fret.
hasty,
overhasty,
quick,
warm,
hot,
testy,
touchy,
techy†,
tetchy;
like touchwood,
like tinder;
huffy,
pettish,
petulant;
waspish,
snappish,
peppery,
fiery,
passionate,
choleric,
shrewish,
sudden and quick in quarrel"
[As You Like It].
querulous,
captious,
moodish†;
quarrelsome,
contentious,
disputatious;
pugnacious
etc.
(bellicose)
720;
cantankerous,
exceptious†;
restiff
etc.
(perverse)
901.1†;
churlish
etc.
(discourteous)
895.
cross,
cross as crabs,
cross as two sticks,
cross as a cat,
cross as a dog,
cross as the tongs;
fractious,
peevish,
acari=atre†.
in a bad temper;
sulky
etc.
901.1;
angry
etc.
900.
resentful,
resentive†;
vindictive
etc.
919.
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Roget 822:
sensible,
sensitive;
impressible,
impressionable;
susceptive,
susceptible;
alive to,
impassionable†,
gushing;
warm hearted,
tender hearted,
soft hearted;
tender as a chicken;
soft,
sentimental,
romantic;
enthusiastic,
highflying†,
spirited,
mettlesome,
vivacious,
lively,
expressive,
mobile,
tremblingly alive;
excitable
etc.
825;
oversensitive,
without skin,
thin-skinned;
fastidious
etc.
868.
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Roget 375:
sensible,
sensitive,
sensuous;
aesthetic,
perceptive,
sentient;
conscious
etc.
(aware)
490.
acute,
sharp,
keen,
vivid,
lively,
impressive,
thin-skinned.
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