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easily offended

ADJECTIVE

irritable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

annoyed contentious exasperated fractious petulant prickly resentful surly testy

WEAK

bearish brooding cantankerous carping choleric complaining crabbed cross crotchety disputatious dissatisfied dyspeptic fiery fretful fretting gloomy grouchy grumbling hasty hot huffy hypercritical ill-humored irascible moody morose out of humor oversensitive peevish plaintive querulous quick-tempered sensitive snappy snarling tense touchy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

happy pleasant

WEAK

cheerful nice

ADJECTIVE

thin-skinned

Synonyms

WEAK

delicate easily hurt hypersensitive oversensitive sensitive soft touchy ultrasensitive vulnerable

Example Sentences

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"The album is not for any pearl clutchers," she told CBS News, with reference to prim, prudish or easily offended people.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

And let me establish something straightaway – I am not easily offended.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2024

As popular as it’s been across the decades, Brooks’ work, on its low or high end, isn’t for everyone; the easily offended need not apply.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2023

I’m not easily offended, but the tone of Kathleen Parker’s Sept. 15 op-ed, “A parade of politics, and tone-deafness,” was hard to let slide.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021

J. is easily offended, bursts into tears at the slightest thing and, to top it all off, is a terrible show-off.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

easily offended

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