easily offended
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Balkan goes further, arguing that people today are more easily offended than they were two decades ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
None of Suga Free’s music is meant for the impressionable or easily offended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
All of which is to say, this insightful memoir might not resonate with the easily offended.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2022
Respondents were asked whether they thought people needed to change the way they talked to be with the times or whether this movement had gone too far and people were too easily offended.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 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
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