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synonyms for thin skinned

  • cantankerous
  • cranky
  • feisty
  • grouchy
  • passionate
  • surly
  • testy
  • uptight
  • angry
  • bearish
  • bristly
  • choleric
  • crabbed
  • cross
  • fractious
  • hasty
  • hot-tempered
  • huffy
  • ireful
  • irritable
  • ogre
  • peevish
  • petulant
  • querulous
  • quick-tempered
  • short-tempered
  • snappish
  • thin-skinned
  • touchy
  • aching
  • bruised
  • delicate
  • inflamed
  • raw
  • acute
  • irritated
  • sensitive
  • smarting
  • hypersensitive
  • oversensitive
  • thin-skinned
  • ticklish
  • touchy

antonyms for thin skinned

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  • cool
  • happy
  • pleasant
  • cheerful
  • healthy
  • OK
  • rough
  • tough
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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 GREELEY
          The Princess was pale and thin; and, though dressed superbly, seemed fitter for her chamber.
          THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
          Her thin and narrow hands held the balcony railing rather tightly.
          BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
          His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.
          ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
          She saw in the chair a thin, broken figure, a drawn brown face, a wreck of a man.
          THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD
          His smooth brow wrinkled and his mouth tightened to a thin straight line beneath the fair "regulation" moustache.
          DOPESAX ROHMER
          The land is generally good, though there are considerable tracts of hard, thin soil.
          GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
          The nuts are cut into thin slices and wrapped in the leaves of a singular plant called buyo.
          ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADE
          And 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 VERSIONVARIOUS
          Thin, with mighty shoulders and an exceptionally deep chest, it was obvious that his strength must be enormous.
          BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
          SYNONYM OF THE DAY
          OCTOBER 26, 1985
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