thick-skinned

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ADJECTIVE
  1. insensitive to criticism
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How To Use thick-skinned In A Sentence

  • The only hope of rapping the press's knuckles is to be sufficiently rich and thick-skinned to drag your grievance through the courts.
  • But a wee warning for those who dare stick their heads above the parapet: look out, you'll need to be very thick-skinned!
  • I learned to be a thick-skinned debater round about then.
  • It's very difficult and hard work and you need to be a bit thick-skinned sometimes.
  • It and the peccary are the only two Pachydermata, or thick-skinned animals, indigenous to the southern continent. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
  • They've too much of what I call thick-skinned honesty for that. Phineas Redux
  • A person who wasn't so thick-skinned might actually get upset at the way some people act around here.
  • They were unusually thick-skinned for a man his age, which Judy judged to be about hers or a little older. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
  • Most of them talked of the abuse they got but were thick-skinned enough to endure it.
  • Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
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