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thin skinned

adjective as in tender

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As he scribbled in his journal, “How to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable, and still alive?”

For these self-righteous and thin-skinned folks, there are apparently limits to the liberal virtue of tolerance.

It prompted talk Quinn was thin-skinned and gave the ads more attention.

“There are many, many thin-skinned folks,” Leibovich continued.

Wilson was exceedingly thin-skinned and prone to feuds, possibly as a byproduct of his excessive self-medicating.

We hope we have done justice to the bitterness and "immortal hate" of these thin-skinned sons of freedom.

He would have made his brother Duke such as he was himself,—had not his brother Duke been so lamentably thin-skinned.

Civilization is merely a veneer, a thin-skinned polish over the savage and crude nature.

A cynicism so ripe and shameless terrified him and yet the count was not excessively thin-skinned.

The fingers of the Thoracic are also inclined to be more thin-skinned than those of other types.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to thin-skinned, such as: delicate, easily hurt, easily offended, hypersensitive, oversensitive, and sensitive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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