huffy
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tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy
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Surgeons can occasionally get a bit huffy about this traditional distinction between physicians and surgeons, and Dr. van de Laar, a laparoscopic surgeon in Amsterdam, is no exception. — Laura Kolbe, WSJ, "‘Under the Knife’ Review: The Kindest Cuts," 14 Nov. 2018 Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight and Nate Cohn (who, at the Times, is one of the needle’s masterminds) sniped at each other about the assumptions built into their models; everyone got really huffy about correlated errors for a few days. — Dara Lind, Vox, "America’s love-hate relationship with the New York Times election needle, explained," 6 Nov. 2018 Current and former members of the administration were predictably huffy. — David Z. Morris, Fortune, "Is the Michelle Wolf White House Correspondents' Dinner Backlash All About Gender?," 29 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'huffy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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