Synonyms for thin-skinned
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : thin-skind |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈθɪnˈskɪnd |
Définition of thin-skinned
- adj easily hurt
- You must remember that you have this disadvantage: you and your kind are thin-skinned.
- Extract from : « Jewel Weed » by Alice Ames Winter
- He is so thin-skinned that he could not shake the creature into the dust as you would have done.
- Extract from : « The Prime Minister » by Anthony Trollope
- He was so thin-skinned that any counsel offered to him took the form of criticism.
- Extract from : « The Prime Minister » by Anthony Trollope
- That's just like a girl—they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- He was thin-skinned to excess; and, as far as that went, a Heautontomorumenos!
- Extract from : « Bibliomania; or Book-Madness » by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
- The most thin-skinned sensitiveness could not have discovered anything.
- Extract from : « Short Stories » by Fiodor Dostoievski
- Besides, though I am not thin-skinned, she has made me understand that,—what was it?
- Extract from : « Into the Highways and Hedges » by F. F. Montrsor (Frances Frederica)
- But luckily it could never then, or at any other time, be said of Father Hamilton that he was thin-skinned.
- Extract from : « The Shoes of Fortune » by Neil Munro
- Perhaps she was not very sensitive, not thin-skinned at all, either in body or soul.
- Extract from : « Hester, Volume 1 (of 3) » by Margaret Oliphant
- Well, after all, it was a mistake to be too thin-skinned, he decided.
- Extract from : « The White Hand and the Black » by Bertram Mitford
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