easily offended
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
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
Melnyk, in response, said Scholz was “playing an offended liverwurst” — a common insult in Germany for someone who is easily offended.
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 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
