highly-strung in the PONS Dictionary

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She's feisty and highly-strung, traits exacerbated by the loss of her work.
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He or she will be used to working in a pressure cooker environment with highly-strung, high-achieving alpha males.
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In cases involving highly-strung neighbours it could even lead to fisticuffs or worse.
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The counterspy was highly-strung and prone to mysterious ailments.
irishecho.com
It's not your fault you were born an over-thinking, highly-strung explosion of emotion.
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This was a pretty highly-strung powerplant with very high compression (and a taste for premium petrol as a result).
www.drive.com.au
Suffice to say that these are two subtle, funny and highly-strung performances.
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Porcelain is a highly-strung, temperamental clay, prone to tiny, but ruinous, cracks.
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A man of highly-strung nervous disposition and intense mental application, his health made frequent changes necessary.
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A standard screenplay of trainer and jockey, together, finding the possibility in a highly-strung thoroughbred.
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