Ticklish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TICKLISH in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• sensitive to tickling
• (of a person) sensitive to being tickled
• (of a cough) characterized by persistent irritation in the throat.
• (of a situation or problem) difficult or tricky and requiring careful handling
• (of a person) easily upset
• Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.
• Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.
• Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.
• difficult to handle; requiring great tact

Words related to TICKLISH

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Words that contain TICKLISH

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How to use TICKLISH in a sentence

• This in itself was sufficient earnest that the cruiser was in ticklish case.
• This also had been of help to them in several ticklish situations.
• Our food in the saddle-bags would not last long, and I foresaw a ticklish business when it came to hunting for the pot.
• Orde, too, often took a hand in some of the more ticklish situations.
• At one place, for a short steep ascent, the slope became hard ice, and our position a very ticklish one.
• Getting out through Arras turned out to be a ticklish business.
• Wallingford, that a mortgage sale, legally made, is a ticklish thing, and the courts do not like to disturb one.
• Among rocks an anchor is a ticklish thing to confide in, and I feared it might be a difficult matter to find a proper bottom, as far out as I deemed it prudent to remain.
• The relations of buyer and seller are ticklish relations, very liable to strains and conflicts.
• What do any of us know about it, one way or the other? Ticklish business! We poke a little too far beyond our ken and get a shock that withers our souls.
• It is a ticklish business to get the sledge along the ice foot, which is now all blue ice ending in a drop to the sea.
• Persons who have to design and construct brick buildings should never forget that they have to be handled with caution, and are really very ticklish and unstable.
• The detective felt that he was in a ticklish position.
• Turning when the car was empty was therefore a ticklish business, and there was only one place where it could be done.
• He had brought his force from Ten Mile Creek, in boats, on the open lake, and the journey, lasting all day, was ticklish enough.
• Never to forget a detail, to remember step by step the windings, over a ticklish road.
• Nevertheless, his duty was very bitter, very ticklish, and intolerable to perform, towards the last days of his guard.
• They had Princeman up again in the last frame, and it was a ticklish moment.
• He had grown very curious, and among the things he wanted to know was why in the world this ticklish spinster had written to him.
• Two or more officers or men always go out together on any trip of this kind in that ticklish space between the trenches, where it is almost certain death to be seen by the enemy.
• If he was, it was entirely owing to his own ticklish situation.
• And as he went, there was nothing in his manner to show how ticklish he felt the situation to be.
• He was in the most ticklish situation he had ever faced, and he was fully aware of it.
• Blows, who was a highly ticklish subject, wandered briskly over his anatomy.
• It was a ticklish moment for all of us, particularly Jones.
• It was decided to unload and make the portage, and a very ticklish one it was.
• Finally, d’Artagnan had entire faith in the bravery of Planchet, and reminded them of the manner in which he had conducted himself in the ticklish affair of Boulogne.
• He should have known better than to let his imagination paint him a portrait of any man, in those ticklish times.
• The man dismounted to pick it out, while the lady rode back to hold the horse, which was a ticklish job, since he was as fresh as a colt.
• This is ticklish business, or it would be if I were caught here.
• The process is a very ticklish one, and but for the northern public opinion, which is now pressing the slaveholders close, I dare say would not be attempted at all.
• Many many tickle what is not ticklish and many tickle the rest when that is not the only way to say that every bad one and every good one is the kind of a one to go away.
• There was no need of all this uproar in ticklish times.
• The job was a very ticklish one, but Bill used the greatest care to prevent accident.

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