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thin-skinned
adjective as in easily hurt
Example Sentences
As he scribbled in his journal, “How to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable, and still alive?”
For these self-righteous and thin-skinned folks, there are apparently limits to the liberal virtue of tolerance.
It prompted talk Quinn was thin-skinned and gave the ads more attention.
“There are many, many thin-skinned folks,” Leibovich continued.
Wilson was exceedingly thin-skinned and prone to feuds, possibly as a byproduct of his excessive self-medicating.
We hope we have done justice to the bitterness and "immortal hate" of these thin-skinned sons of freedom.
He would have made his brother Duke such as he was himself,—had not his brother Duke been so lamentably thin-skinned.
Civilization is merely a veneer, a thin-skinned polish over the savage and crude nature.
A cynicism so ripe and shameless terrified him and yet the count was not excessively thin-skinned.
The fingers of the Thoracic are also inclined to be more thin-skinned than those of other types.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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