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easily offended

ADJECTIVE
irritable
Synonyms
STRONGEST
annoyed contentious exasperated fractious petulant prickly resentful surly testy
WEAK
bearish brooding cantankerous carping choleric complaining crabbed cross crotchety disputatious dissatisfied dyspeptic fiery fretful fretting gloomy grouchy grumbling hasty hot huffy hypercritical ill-humored irascible moody morose out of humor oversensitive peevish plaintive querulous quick-tempered sensitive snappy snarling tense touchy
Antonyms
STRONGEST
happy pleasant
WEAK
cheerful nice
ADJECTIVE
thin-skinned
Synonyms
WEAK
delicate easily hurt hypersensitive oversensitive sensitive soft touchy ultrasensitive vulnerable

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

So I understand certain parts of the gay community being upset, but I’m Black, I’m a female, and I’m a comedian, and I’m not easily offended.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2021

I’m not easily offended, but the tone of Kathleen Parker’s Sept. 15 op-ed, “A parade of politics, and tone-deafness,” was hard to let slide.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021

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