easily hurt

Example Sentences

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Cokley, who is a little person, knows that something as simple as the height of tables at polling places can easily hurt her ability to vote.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022

She fusses over me kindly, offering drinks – a world away from the nervous, shy, deeply rattled and easily hurt woman I have just watched in Clint Eastwood’s new movie, Richard Jewell.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2020

Danforth described Tom ­Schweich as “a person easily hurt and quickly offended” and said, “I told him I didn’t think he had the temperament for elective politics.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2015

I am extremely sensitive to the people around me; quite easily hurt and emotionally manipulated by men in my life.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2013

He is very touchie, his feeling is very easily hurt, and so are mine.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote