[ adj ] difficult to handle; requiring great tact <adj.all> delicate negotiations with the big powershesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter a touchy subject
Ticklish \Tic"klish\, a. 1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. --Bacon.
2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.
Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish? --Barrow.
3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.
Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. --Bacon. ※ -- {Tic"klish*ly}, adv. -- {Tic"klish*ness}, n.
But the biggest and most ticklish change involved the production process, Mr. Schifman says.
The new Canadian platinum issue, though not competing directly with the U.S., will face ticklish problems, too.
Selling a stock while calling it a buy is a ticklish subject in the brokerage community.
Democrats looking ahead to New York's April 19 presidential primary are focusing on the mystery of a Cuomo endorsement and the status of Jesse Jackson's ticklish relationship with the state's influential Jewish community.
It can get ticklish if you move boundaries," Connolly said. "You're talking about a community effort." So far, Little Brook residents have cooperated and have reacted calmly to the situtation.
Baker hopes, meanwhile, he has put to rest a potentially ticklish problem over his holdings in Chemical New York Corp. by saying he would "tend to be guided" by whatever conclusions are reached by government ethics lawyers.