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easily offended
adjective as in irritable
Weak matches
- 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
adjective as in thin-skinned
Example Sentences
Trump and his surrogates, including Vance, say Democrats are just too easily offended.
While on stage, Vance attempted to bond with the crowd by delivering a joke about how liberals are too easily offended and quick to point out what they perceive to be racist behavior.
“I'm sorry, people are too easily offended now! If you don’t like a joke, don’t laugh!” she bellows.
And let me establish something straightaway – I am not easily offended.
Snowflake is a term used to dismiss a person as easily offended or overly sensitive.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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