tactile person

Though not a tactile person, Common was not a stern parent and never struck his children.

He had always been a tactile person.

If you're not a tactile person, and would rather your bump wasn't touched, just politely say so, or you could tactfully move away!

"I am a tactile person.

"He was obviously a very tactile person, not a pallid, anemic esthete," says Peter Watson, who has been visiting Nureyev's many homes for a biography.

I'm a tactile person, so I like my hands in their manes, the way I like my hands in the mud and my hands in the paint."

Mr. Hoffman says that bringing Raymond home "took forever," but he realized the degree to which he had done so when he, ordinarily "a very tactile person," felt "little shocks when I was touched" by co-workers between takes.