thin-skinned
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But when it goes away, so do our nightly doses of Colbert’s affable clowning, the kind that irritates thin-skinned despots in a way other comics can’t quite match.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
At times, Musk spent his days on the witness stand coming off as thin-skinned.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
"I tend to focus on the substantive things, and not on people choosing nicknames for me. I mean, if I was that thin-skinned I probably wouldn't last that long in politics."
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025
This is the same thin-skinned coach who this year closed practice to the media, the same one who last year suspended a Southern California New Group reporter for alleged violations of the program’s media policy.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024
They are knobby and crooked, thin-skinned, and—like my ruined face—covered with liver spots.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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