How to Use touchy-feely in a Sentence

touchy-feely

adjective
  • Alonso wasn’t a touchy-feely boss.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Citadel is proud not to have a touchy-feely atmosphere.
    — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • The image of her cutting a snake in half with her shovel doesn’t conjure up a touchy-feely woman.
    — Marc Berman august 15, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But these touchy-feely white parents were doing something right, because their kids — my classmates — had poise.
    — Jane Park, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
  • If that strikes you as twee or downright silly, Olivia Newman‘s touchy-feely weepie is not on your wavelength.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 May 2026
  • Looser, more touchy-feely styles include gentle parenting and freestyle parenting.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Excuse the cynicism, but this is the sort of combination of touchy-feely button-pushing and self-conscious peculiarity that’s meant to seem significant and profound that will bring out your inner rom-com Grinch.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025

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