prickly, thorny, ticklish, dicey, contentious, uncomfortable, testy, tricky, sensitive, problematic, vexed, nettlesome, awkward, delicate, complicated, uneasy, taboo, knotty, unsettled, troublesome, oversensitive, ambivalent, tense, leery, divisive, sticky, problematical, tetchy, squeamish, controversial, snippy, neuralgic, weighty, hot potato, politically incorrect, reticent, perplexing, chummy, standoffish, tough, disagreeable, finicky, difficult, sticky wicket, skittish, indelicate, heated, hypersensitive, iffy, fond, unforthcoming, picky, antsy, irritating, hairy, important, unfriendly, wary, emotive, confrontational, disconcerting, messy, troubling, ambiguous, unresolved, apprehensive, unpleasant, hot, irksome, cranky, annoying, discomforting, analagous, bothersome, unkind, weird, rude, confusing, interesting, fractious, acrimonious, curious, intractable, hesitant, peculiar, bumpy, unpopular, peeved, nitpicky, frosty, litigious, strange, germane, cautious, distasteful, unhappy, volatile, bitter, ornery, obtuse, unsavory, twitchy, trickiest, sociable, edgy, trickier, vexing, exasperating, nervy, uninteresting, dangerous, hardest

touchily

feisty, huffy, ill-natured, sensitive, thin-skinned