woundable

Example Sentences

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Anyone who is woundable by an occasional dip in prices isn’t rich enough to count.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 13, 2015

I've often heard Bart say that men's feelings are very woundable at forty, while at twenty-five a hurt closes up like water after a pebble has been dropped in it.

From The Garden, You, and I by Wright, Mabel Osgood

He felt himself colour at the question, and then hated that—hated to pass for anything so idiotic as woundable.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry