highstrung

The old woman, old at thirty-five or forty, often, was not only considered a useless burden but a positive nuisance if she were at all "highstrung" or "meddling."

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

To hand a sensitive, "highstrung" child over to such a woman!

Anne of Green Gables 1908

In my experience, lots of kids who go to Ivies would be happier at a less highstrung, ego-centric institution -- they're where they are instead hoping to placate their parents.

Academic Lock-in, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Both were highstrung, both were quick and irritable, and their continual clashes did not augur well for their future.

CHAPTER V 2010

He was highstrung to begin with, and being Fleetwood Mac's de facto manager was more than he had bargained for when he joined the group.

ɘloЯ 2010

Madame de Polignac had by that time become Marie-Antoinette's best friend, a friendship encouraged by Louis XVI, since Madame de Poliganc had a calming and steadying influence upon the highstrung and easily distracted Queen.

Archive 2009-08-01 elena maria vidal 2009

Madame de Polignac had by that time become Marie-Antoinette's best friend, a friendship encouraged by Louis XVI, since Madame de Poliganc had a calming and steadying influence upon the highstrung and easily distracted Queen.

Madame de Guéménée elena maria vidal 2009

It had taken Sir John years to realize that he was far more comfortable in the presence of women — including artistic, highstrung women such as his first wife, Eleanor, and powerful, indomitable women such as his current wife, Jane — than in the company of men.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Even when there is a break during daylight, I'm too highstrung to relax.

scorpi07 Diary Entry scorpi07 2005

Haggard was a narrow-faced, highstrung man in his mid-thirties.

Flash Jayne Ann Krentz 1998