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easily offended
adjective as in irritable
Weak matches
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- fiery
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- plaintive
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- tense
- touchy
adjective as in thin-skinned
Example Sentences
These high-class servants are so easily offended, you know, and on account of our Marie—a perfect treasure Oh, thank you!
They were easily offended, and never forgave what they considered as an injury or insult.
Mrs. Renwick was a lady very easily offended; and she always signified her anger as soon as she felt it.
Tired at last of disputes, and too easily offended, de Gua resigned the editorship.
The Duke of Brecon was a gentleman easily offended, but not one of those who ever confined their sense of injury to mere words.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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