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Ticklishly

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. [1913 Webster] -- Tic"klish*ly, adv. -- Tic"klish*ness, n.

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ticklishly

adv. In a ticklish way.

Usage examples of "ticklishly".

Lower he probed each rectal area and found it open, wet and inclined to flutter ticklishly against his finger.

A cockroach climbed ticklishly up one leg, explored his face, and fed on fluid oozing from his nose until he sneezed and sent it scuttling away.

A feather of a mourning dove drifted down and lit on Wentworth's nose and clung there, ticklishly.