Thesaurus / thin skinned
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synonyms for thin skinned
- belligerent
- cantankerous
- combative
- contentious
- fractious
- litigious
- petulant
- tempestuous
- turbulent
- unruly
- argumentative
- bad-tempered
- bellicose
- brawling
- cat-and-dog
- choleric
- churlish
- crabby
- cross
- disputatious
- dissentious
- excitable
- fiery
- gladiatorial
- hasty
- have chip on shoulder
- hotheaded
- huffy
- impassioned
- irascible
- irritable
- ornery
- passionate
- peevish
- pettish
- pugnacious
- querulous
- ructious
- snappy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- truculent
- violent
- war
- capricious
- erratic
- excitable
- fickle
- headstrong
- high-strung
- impatient
- irritable
- mercurial
- moody
- ornery
- passionate
- petulant
- thin-skinned
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unstable
- volatile
- changeable
- cussed
- easily upset
- emotional
- explosive
- fiery
- froward
- hotheaded
- hyper
- hypersensitive
- in bad mood
- inconsistent
- mean
- neurotic
- sensitive
- ticklish
- touchy
- uncertain
- undependable
- variable
- willful
- aching
- bruised
- delicate
- inflamed
- raw
- acute
- irritated
- sensitive
- smarting
- hypersensitive
- oversensitive
- thin-skinned
- ticklish
- touchy
- annoyed
- cantankerous
- cranky
- edgy
- exasperated
- grumpy
- impatient
- quarrelsome
- sullen
- uptight
- bad-tempered
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- fretful
- grouchy
- irascible
- mean
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- peppery
- petulant
- quick-tempered
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- thin-skinned
- waspish
- delicate
- easily hurt
- easily offended
- hypersensitive
- oversensitive
- sensitive
- soft
- touchy
- ultrasensitive
- vulnerable
- delicate
- dicey
- hypersensitive
- jumpy
- precarious
- risky
- sensitive
- testy
- ticklish
- tricky
- uptight
- volatile
- bad-tempered
- bundle of nerves
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hazardous
- irascible
- irritable
- mean
- ornery
- oversensitive
- peevish
- perturbable
- pettish
- petulant
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- splenetic
- surly
- temperamental
- thin-skinned
- unpredictable
- unsafe
- wired up
- wound-up
- accessible
- defenseless
- exposed
- liable
- ready
- sensitive
- susceptible
- unsafe
- weak
- assailable
- naked
- on the line
- on-the-spot
- out on a limb
- sitting duck
- sucker
- tender
- thin-skinned
- unguarded
- unprotected
- wide open
- accessible
- assailable
- attackable
- defenseless
- exposed
- liable
- naked
- on the line
- on-the-spot
- out on a limb
- ready
- sensitive
- sitting duck
- sucker
- susceptible
- tender
- thin-skinned
- unguarded
- unprotected
- unsafe
- vincible
- weak
- wide open
- annoyed
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- edgy
- exasperated
- fretful
- grouchy
- grumpy
- impatient
- irascible
- mean
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- peppery
- petulant
- quarrelsome
- quick-tempered
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sullen
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- waspish
- accessible
- assailable
- attackable
- defenseless
- exposed
- liable
- naked
- on the line
- on-the-spot
- out on a limb
- pregnable
- ready
- sensitive
- sitting duck
- sucker
- susceptible
- tender
- thin-skinned
- unguarded
- unprotected
- unsafe
- weak
- wide open
- critical
- gentle
- refined
- sensitive
- alert
- careful
- dainty
- fastidious
- finical
- finicking
- finicky
- nice
- particular
- persnickety
- prudish
- pure
- scrupulous
- squeamish
- thin-skinned
- bubbly
- courageous
- excitable
- fiery
- gritty
- gutsy
- high-strung
- lively
- scrappy
- spunky
- active
- alive
- difficult
- enthusiastic
- frisky
- full of pep
- game
- gutty
- hot-blooded
- mettlesome
- ornery
- peppy
- quarrelsome
- sensitive
- thin-skinned
- tough
- truculent
- zestful
- irritable
- recalcitrant
- restive
- testy
- unmanageable
- unruly
- awkward
- captious
- crabby
- disorderly
- fretful
- froward
- huffy
- indocile
- indomitable
- intractable
- mean
- ornery
- peevish
- perverse
- pettish
- petulant
- querulous
- refractory
- scrappy
- snappish
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uncompliant
- undisciplined
- wayward
- wild
- calm
- constant
- dependable
- easygoing
- happy
- laid-back
- predictable
- reliable
- stable
- steadfast
- steady
- tolerant
- unchanging
- unvarying
- peaceful
- pleased
- coarse
- harsh
- healthful
- healthy
- heavy
- imprecise
- indelicate
- inelegant
- insensitive
- robust
- rough
- strong
- uncareful
- uncritical
- unscrupulous
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How to use thin skinned in a sentence
This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYThe Princess was pale and thin; and, though dressed superbly, seemed fitter for her chamber.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERHer thin and narrow hands held the balcony railing rather tightly.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSHis slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONShe saw in the chair a thin, broken figure, a drawn brown face, a wreck of a man.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDHis smooth brow wrinkled and his mouth tightened to a thin straight line beneath the fair "regulation" moustache.
DOPESAX ROHMERThe land is generally good, though there are considerable tracts of hard, thin soil.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYThe nuts are cut into thin slices and wrapped in the leaves of a singular plant called buyo.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThin, with mighty shoulders and an exceptionally deep chest, it was obvious that his strength must be enormous.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS