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crotchety, pernickety, choleric, meek, caring, benevolent, irascible, insatiable, choosy, hair-trigger, considerate, Chippy, jaundiced, picky, altruistic, paternal, prudish, censorious, humane, fussy, nagging, peppery, obstreperous, pedantic, pedantry, high-maintenance, petty, pavlovian, squeamish, mild-mannered, prudery, solicitous, grouchy, breathing, ill-tempered, peevish, snappy, Tender-hearted, hypercritical, complimentary, Hot-headed, judgmental, sensibility, querulous, testy, sensitively, crabby, avuncular, unforgiving, crabbed, unselfish, prude, tetchy, fatherly, mercifully, curmudgeonly, compassionate, fractious, uptight, miserable, sensational, moody, sweetly, demanding, humanitarian, gently, bad-tempered, politic, foul, prim, thoughtfully, persnickety, incisive, hypersensitive, maternal, benign, bilious, mellow, finicky, kindly, prissy, sensuous, angelic, christian, charitable, innocent, feminine, ratty, penetrating, sensual, keen, sweet, trenchant, defensive, lovely, particular, mild, sensitivity, sharp, temperamental, fearful, lithe, dyspeptic, Questioned, defenceless, unwell, medium, Discomfiting, courteous, delicacy, merciful, demure, in a tizzy, kindhearted, torturous, hairy, embarrassing, flustered, disputatious, distressed, adroit, magnanimous, helpless, compliant, nerve-wracking, good-hearted, apprehensive, subtle, moving, disputable, clever, correctness, festering, delicately, springy, proper, cottony, giving, willowy, sickly, alive to, recite, restless, jittery, human, responsively, curt, debatable, dependency, excruciating, mettlesome, wakeful, affective, argumentative, tottery, High-mettled, dramatic, bitter, moot, highly strung, impressed, lenient, overprotected, prudent, Discomforting, critical, rickety, soreness, knotty, coddled, softhearted, accessible, dicky, close, chafed, trying, puritanic, advanced, huffish, stabbing, canny, elf, love, serious, gullible, minute, problematic, precision, capricious, thin, emotion, amenable, abstruse, discriminative, risky, perspicuous, unsound, fallible, burning, problematical, punctilious, undecided, predisposition, disputed, tenderness, frightening, repeat, alert, yielding, agility, hairbreadth, disturbed, ugly, denote, skilful, irritant, chancy, vivacious, impatient, waspish, edge, whippy, victorian, clear, live, educated, perplexing, lively, bare-ass, irritated, awkward, inflamed, mildness, distressful, perilous, mobile, hot, nervy, lissome, belief, comprehend, insecure, correlation, bright, Babied, agonizing, consume, fraught, formable, petulant, plastic, crafty, selective, helpful, nerve-racking, crank, shielded, inclined, passion, neighbourly, far end, in a sweat, tingling, bad-humoured, affectionate, wise, colligate, affection, bending, searching, Puristic, feeble, charged, profound, sensate, hold out, fond, accuracy, radiosensitive, Shapable, consult, stinging, spiteful, disquieted, infirm, fretful, cunning, associate, hair-splitting, crybaby, exactness, moldable, Snarling, touching, supple, in a flap, troubled, tenderly, facile, intricate, bluff, recount, queasy, kindness, uncomfortable, quarrelsome, puzzling, quick-witted, sophisticated, soulful, end, differential, scrupulous, concerned, strict, elastic, flappable, Passible, accommodating, emotive, hyperesthetic, anxious, gracious, pertain, hearted, extensible, metier, Heightened, enthusiastic, brusque, distinguishing, spoiled, affected, Sharp-witted, persuadable, coy, slight, endangered, discriminate, sensible, polished, frightened, predisposed, fastidious, intelligent, flexile, miffy, eruptive, exacting, active, pliable, itchy, unreliable, accurate, apply tension, dubious, dependence, pliant, red, prickly, cantankerous, hurtful, aesthetic, hair-raising, knowledgeable, open, puritanical, light, malleable, questionable, Susceptibilities, shrewd, narrate, distinctive, provocative, perfectionist, recondite, Influenced, Rankling, unpredictable, ductile, gruff, severe, gushing, dangerous, parlous, dicey, clemency, responsible, mad, restive, hurting, depict, bleak, cross, submissive, quick, nasty, overrefined, deep, accountable, ingenious, hazardous, apply, in a stew, contentious, algetic, complex, agitated, splenetic, nimbleness, conscientious, unshielded, spiritualist, limber, on edge, animated, piercing, spirited, obliging, warmheartedly, exact, terrifying, continue, genteel, poignant, Kind-hearted, photosensitive, smarting, ill at ease, dodgy, susceptibility, ailing, beneficent, unpleasant, modest, in the balance, warm, mincing, aching, grave, snappish, lithesome, powerless, distressing, shaky, flexuous, appertain, attuned, reach out, grumpy, supportive, good-natured, upset, expressive, unsteady, dainty, hothouse, anaphylactic, disposed, unsettled, in a dither, rehearse, inflammable, impression, extensile, troublesome, cognisant, like putty, perfectionistic, goosy, tell, unmalicious, thorny, lovesome, be sensible, sticky, Highflying, bendable, scabrous, communicative, Pregnable, uncovered, short, ruffled, chicken, perturbed, untoughened, slippery, Impassionable, hotheaded, obnoxious, chewable, adaptable, tractable, civilized, dexterous, treacherous, worked up, relate, stirring, nice, on tenterhooks, pure, Sequacious, iffy, doubted, doubtful, priggish, angry, on the ball, tractile, forgiving, fairy, achy, reliance, benignant, controversial, pampered, Startlish, flexible, describe, scared, throbbing, fictile, obscure, connect, over-nice, galled, finishing line, unsure, confidence, exquisite, compassion, meticulous, refer, warmhearted, polite, reasonable, high-spirited, sensorimotor, baffling, sheltered, cultivated, enigmatic, fondness, captious, grievous, uncertain, agile, perspicacious, in tensest, in-tensest, in-tense, quick witted, in-tenser, quickwitted, smart, in tenser, in tense, more acute, sensitive, dyspathetic, averse to, immune sensitive, more admiring, most pleased, co operative, more supportive, most knowledgeable, friendly, most admiring, graceful, grandest, conscious, observant, perceptive, mindful, Apprised, familiar with, sentient, sensory, feeling, aware, attentive, cognizant, astute, discriminating, in formed, urbane, more blue stocking, high class, more blue-stocking, highclass, traveled, more bluestocking, up to date, most distingue, in-formed, well informed, more informed, most blue-stocking, most bluestocking, more savant, most savant, savant, more distingue, well-informed, wellinformed, most blue stocking, fore-sighted, finical, fore sighted, un predictable, un-predictable, de-tailed, hair trigger, tactical, most hair trigger, de tailed, more hairtrigger, more hair trigger, most hair-trigger, more finicking, most hairtrigger, most finicking, more hair-trigger, touchy-feely, more opportunistic, most opportunistic, more contriving, most contriving, most conniving, more conniving, most capable, more clear-sighted, gnostic, in-sighted, most percipient, more clear sighted, in sighted, more clearsighted, wisest, most clearsighted, clear sighted, most clear sighted, more insighted, most gnostic, more gnostic, most insighted, most clear-sighted, more percipient, discreet, discerning, judicious, opinionated, choicy, easily harmed, more bewildering, unpropitious, more discommoding, most discommoding, most bewildering, most disconcerting, more discommodious, most exasperating, un-seemly, dis agreeable, dis-concerting, be-wildering, inconvenient, more troubling, un-easiest, most rattling, in commodious, most compromising, dis commodious, in-opportune, un-propitious, more rattling, be wildering, un-seemliest, in-convenient, in-commodious, most troubling, in convenient, most mortifying, most discommodious, most distracting, un easy, more compromising, un-easy, un comfortable, ex-asperating, un easier, up setting, more mortifying, more disconcerting, troubling, un seemly, dis concerting, un-seemlier, dis-commodious, uneasy, un-comfortable, up-setting, most discomfiting, ex asperating, un-easier, un propitious, more distracting, in opportune, un seemliest, more exasperating, dis-agreeable, un seemlier, un easiest, more discomfiting, hot-blooded, feverish, heartwarming, hotblooded, passionate, sympathetic, hysterical, ardent, over-wrought, deeply felt, heart-felt, fragile, impulsive, tempestuous, brittle, mercurial, irritable, galvanic, overzealous, short fused, explosive, combustible, crusty, hot-tempered, cranky, excitable, volatile, over-zealous, stormy, Agitable, fidgety, volcanic, fiery, edgy, Alarmable, high-strung, short-tempered, hottempered, rash, reckless, ex posed, unprotected, Menaced, un-protected, more menaced, most menaced, ex-posed, unguarded, un protected, un guarded, un-guarded, Gutty, zestful, full of pep, more hairsplitting, trifling, more hairline, un-adulterated, un-polluted, more fine-spun, more unpolluted, fine spun, most unpolluted, more fine spun, most hairline, most fine spun, un adulterated, most enigmatic, un polluted, most hairsplitting, most fine-spun, de-terminative, more developmental, de terminative, most shaping, most developmental, shaping, more shaping, more muted, peaceful, fainter, low pitched, most muted, more low-toned, lowpitched, low toned, more low toned, un troubled, lowtoned, most low toned, soothing, gradual, more lowtoned, un-troubled, most low-toned, most lowtoned, sensatory, oversensitive, influenceable, umbrageous, tense, sensile, wax-like, ingenuous, seeing, suggestible, reactive, knowing, precise, fine, easily affected, wired, turned on to, waxlike, touchy feely, emotionable, hung up, ear to ground, most penetrative, ear the ground, more penetrative, knows whats what, ear ground, knows what what, Fretting, bearish, ill-humored, out of humor, easily offended, grumbling, more spooked, most unrestful, more unrestful, un restful, most spooked, un-restful, timorous, ex-cited, ex cited, on pins needles, nobody fool, nobody's fool, most einstein, sharp as tack, whizest, nobodys fool, whizer, more einstein, more beatable, more conquerable, dis-posed, most beatable, most verisimilar, more verisimilar, most conquerable, dis posed, more flustered, most flustered, dis-tressed, up-set, more nervous, worried, more ruffled, unstrung, un-strung, most ruffled, up-tight, up tight, taut, dis tressed, un strung, more questioning, on ones toes, most detecting, more sharpeyed, more intentive, more discovering, wide awake, more comprehending, sharpeyed, more advertent, eagle eyed, most deducing, dis covering, on one toes, more sharp-eyed, sharp eyed, most comprehending, most surveying, more surveying, more observative, more sharp eyed, most questioning, most advertent, dis-covering, most contemplating, not missing trick, most discovering, most sharp eyed, most observative, most intentive, eagleeyed, more contemplating, most sharpeyed, more detecting, more deducing, most sharp-eyed, most novel, generative, causal, Demiurgic, causative, breaking new ground, innovational, untried, innovative, originative, in-flamed, more hurting, extremely bad, un pleasant, more throbbing, most saddening, more saddening, most throbbing, in flamed, dis-tasteful, dis tasteful, un-pleasant, more recognizable, most appercipient, most cognoscible, most cognizable, most recognizable, re-cognizable, most cognitive, re cognizable, more appercipient, more cognitive, trans lucent, trans-lucent, more cognizable, more cognoscible, more gender-free, more nonracist, multi cultural, in offensive, most gender free, more nonsexist, non sexist, most gender-free, sensitive other, gender free, in-offensive, most nondiscriminatory, more multicultural, more nondiscriminatory, non-discriminatory, multi-cultural, political views bias free, most nonsexist, non-racist, genderfree, non racist, more gender free, non discriminatory, non-sexist, more genderfree, most nonracist, political views biasfree, most genderfree, most multicultural, most dynamite, un-safe, un healthy, out limb, more dynamite, in-securest, un-safest, in securest, un-safer, in securer, in decisive, un healthiest, impugnable, un-reliable, out a limb, un-sure, touch go, un-healthiest, pre carious, more impugnable, most impugnable, un safest, pre-carious, hanging by a thread, un healthier, un-healthy, un reliable, un settled, un safer, un safe, in secure, in-decisive, un-settled, in-securer, in-secure, un sure, de-voted, pre-disposed, de voted, pro nest, pro-nest, fain, more intellective, un-worldliest, more telekinetic, psycho-logical, more supersensory, psycho logical, most telepathic, un worldlier, most telekinetic, trans mundane, super-natural, un-worldly, more psychogenic, most psychal, most supersensitive, most supersensual, most psychogenic, super sensory, meta physical, more psychal, super-sensual, super sensitive, more supersensitive, un worldly, trans-mundane, more transmundane, super natural, Supersensible, more telepathic, meta-physical, super-sensitive, super sensual, super-sensory, super-sensible, most intellective, more supersensual, super sensible, most supersensory, Supersensual, most transmundane, quick tempered, quicktempered, shorttempered, short tempered, most splenetic, more scraped, more bruised, most chafed, most unclothed, un clad, more pared, most galled, wounded, un-clothed, more chafed, more galled, more blistered, more skinned, more scratched, most blistered, most cut, most dressed, most pared, un-clad, more unclothed, more peeled, un clothed, most scratched, most grazed, more abraded, more cut, most peeled, un-covered, un covered, most skinned, more dressed, most scraped, more grazed, most abraded, most bruised, more high brow, most high-brow, wellbred, high minded, re fined, re-strained, highminded, well mannered, re strained, re-fined, ex-act, more high-brow, high brow, most high brow, well bred, ex act, on spot, not prayer, off the deep end, wideopen, un sounder, un-sound, un sound, end angered, end-angered, un-sounder, un-soundest, maudlin, mawkish, romantic, poetic, sappy, sentimental, mushy, schmaltzy, dewy-eyed, fanciful, sloppy, starry-eyed, gooey, lovesick, quick on the trigger, quick on trigger, having smarts, smart as a tack, most volative, un dependable, more volative, un-dependable, undemanding, easy going, easy-going, overindulgent, softer, all heart, bleeding-heart, more reddened, pained, more irked, most ulcerated, most vexed, more grieving, more stung, more abscessed, most irked, more grieved, most grieved, more vexed, most reddened, more ulcerated, most stung, most grieving, most abscessed, more subaltern, more under, sub altern, enslaved, most satellite, most enslaved, sub ordinate, most subaltern, subbest, de-pendent, governed, at one feet, more substract, at feet, de pendent, sub best, sub-ordinate, pro visional, sub-altern, more enslaved, sub missive, more satellite, at ones feet, sub-best, more subjugated, most under, subber, most subjugated, most substract, non-resistant, nonresistant, sitting duck, easily moved, wide open, be taken in, tumble for, fall for, more condoling, more commiserating, most condoling, more sympathizing, most commiserating, most sympathizing, having heart right place, most appreciating, more appreciating, more poised, most poised, easily upset, hyper, head-strong, in bad mood, more rookie, most loveydovey, more loveydovey, un-ripe, most lovey dovey, more lovey dovey, most lovey-dovey, loveydovey, un-ripest, most rookie, un-riper, un ripest, wet behind the ears, more lovey-dovey, un ripe, easily hurt, ultrasensitive, de-liberate, un selfish, well thoughtout, un-selfish, de liberate, in-constant, touch and go, bundle nerves, more perturbable, badtempered, most perturbable, wired up, more pettish, most pettish, bad tempered, touchyfeely, quirky, under standing, more understanding, under-standing, in-accessible, up-pity, more unsocial, un bending, more unforthcoming, un approachable, re-tiring, un-social, re-served, un-neighborly, un-approachable, with drawn, laidback, with-drawn, non gregarious, re tiring, most unsocial, un sociable, in accessible, in-hospitable, un-forthcoming, un neighborly, more nongregarious, up pity, un-sociable, most unforthcoming, un congenial, recessive, most nongregarious, in hospitable, un-communicative, un social, un-congenial, un-bending, most unneighborly, more unneighborly, un forthcoming, re served, unforthcoming, stuckup, un stable, un-stable, un-stabler, more teetering, unsteadiest, un steadier, un stablest, un-steadier, wiggliest, Teetering, most weaving, un stabler, most teetering, more fluctuating, more weaving, mutable, un-steadiest, un steady, un-steady, un steadiest, wigglier, un-trustworthy, un-stablest, most electrifying, zestier, more electrifying, zestiest, most eyes only, not be quoted, un-official, on qt, un official, most eyes-only, eyesonly, more eyes only, eyes only, off record, most eyesonly, more eyes-only, more eyesonly, good, kind, generous, Warm-hearted, complicated, awareness, challenging, tough, hard, impressible, difficult, arduous, be an effort, punishing, taxing, mysterious, shadowy, secret, underground, secretive, in strict confidence, body, confidential, clandestine, surreptitious, crumbly, flimsy, careful, friable, delicately balanced, frail, weak, breakable, feelings, ability, the minute you do something, easy, alive, awake, classified, erogenous, highly sensitive, huffy, light-sensitive, nociceptive, crotchety

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