Synonyms for thin-skinned


Grammar : Adj
Spell : thin-skind
Phonetic Transcription : ˈθɪnˈskɪnd


Définition of thin-skinned

  • adj easily hurt
Example sentences :
  • 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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