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thin-skinned
adjective as in easily hurt
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Idris makes his rookie character bristly yet endearing, with the thin-skinned transparency of a generation raised to measure its worth in likes.
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“I am not thin-skinned,” Wood, 31, said in one Instagram story.
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Critics like this believe Trump is both breathtakingly vain, and amazingly thin-skinned at the same time.
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Yep, Vance's "defense" of his boss is to paint him as a thin-skinned bully who needs to be coddled with flattery.
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So why isn't the notoriously thin-skinned Trump more upset at the younger, richer Musk for stealing his thunder?
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