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touched
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Definition:1. Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by).2. Slightly mentally deficient; touched in the head.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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Muley said over the fire, "You fellas'd think I'm touched, the way I live."
"Touched nothin'," said Joad. If your're touched, I wisht ever'body was touched."
John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath, p.53 (1939)
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Her mother had been touched. She often babbled of people no one knew. She talked to dead relatives, dead babies, speaking to them as if they were still alive.
Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove (1985)
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"Only slightly touched?" said I, touching my head. "I take it for granted that she is not particularly not dangerously affected, eh?"
"Mon dieu! what is it you imagine? This lady, my particular old friend Madame Joyeuse, is as absolutely sane as myself. [...]"
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
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“That’s a rum card,” the footman said to himself, and inquired of his companions whether it was a joke or what it was. “It is just a way he has,” said the butler (who regarded the Baron as slightly ‘touched,’ ‘a bit balmy’), “but he is one of Madame’s friends for whom I have always had the greatest respect, he has a good heart.”
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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All a bit touched. Mad Fanny and his other sister Mrs Dickinson driving about with scarlet harness. James Joyce. Ulysses
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