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
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
In his father’s presence, he was easily offended.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
