How To Use Thick-skinned In A Sentence
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The only hope of rapping the press's knuckles is to be sufficiently rich and thick-skinned to drag your grievance through the courts.
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But a wee warning for those who dare stick their heads above the parapet: look out, you'll need to be very thick-skinned!
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I learned to be a thick-skinned debater round about then.
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It's very difficult and hard work and you need to be a bit thick-skinned sometimes.
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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
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They've too much of what I call thick-skinned honesty for that.
Phineas Redux
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A person who wasn't so thick-skinned might actually get upset at the way some people act around here.
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They were unusually thick-skinned for a man his age, which Judy judged to be about hers or a little older.
THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
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Most of them talked of the abuse they got but were thick-skinned enough to endure it.
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Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
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A shy, sensitive, clearly unhappy boy's troubled relationship with a domineering, thick-skinned father is captured in that single wounding chuckle.
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Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
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`I'm pretty thick-skinned, Mr Wolfe," he said, coming on again with that engaging grin that you see in society-page photographs.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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But then, the notion that our babudom is thick-skinned is so ingrained in our minds that the BBMP's action seems barely credible; even an eyewash.
Daily News & Analysis
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Shearer is confident that the Argentine can shrug off the media storm that has surrounded his protracted transfer to Old Trafford, having shown himself to be suitably thick-skinned last term.
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This may well have caused mild offence, but anyone thick-skinned enough to freeload should be able to handle it.
Times, Sunday Times
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It can serve the timid and the thick-skinned, the serious and the happy-go-lucky and the restrained or repressed and the emotionally ‘unbridled.’
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Thick-skinned, he fails to heed their hints about getting a replacement, even when they turn up at his house with Tom, a hot young guitar prodigy.
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So, you just have to be a bit thick-skinned about it and keep going.
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But a wee warning for those who dare stick their heads above the parapet: look out, you'll need to be very thick-skinned!
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The best anecdotes always involved the camera persons, their miserliness, their profligacy with the company's money ( "To hire of camel"), their thick-skinned insouciance on matters of taste or tact.
Why staff photographers are so important to popular newspapers
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I'm pretty thick-skinned, but I found that remark to be stupid.
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Of course, Rice admits that he wasn't as thick-skinned when some of the first bad reviews hit.
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His loud, belligerent, thick-skinned exterior has always encased a much more emotional inner centre.
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You do need to be thick-skinned to survive as a politician here.
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The approach requires a devil-may-care swagger, a thick skin and also thick-skinned editors, who seem to be in short supply.
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Perhaps mentally tough would be a more sensitive description than thick-skinned.
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Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were lumped together under the order UNGULATA, or _hoofed animals_, subdivided by Cuvier into _Pachydermata_, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, and _Ruminantia_, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them into three distinct orders -- _Proboscidea_, _Hyracoidea_ and _Ungulata_, which classification I here adopt.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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For all his claims to resilience in the face of criticism, he is not as thick-skinned as he professes to be.
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The approach requires a devil-may-care swagger, a thick skin and also thick-skinned editors, who seem to be in short supply.
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a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got
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The rare Boar fish is usually only about 15-20cm long, thick-skinned and spiky.
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You have to be thick-skinned enough to shrug it all off and continue to forge ahead.
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You do need to be thick-skinned to survive as a politician here.
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This may well have caused mild offence, but anyone thick-skinned enough to freeload should be able to handle it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kara, you're really not the most thick-skinned of people.
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Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
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My persona: friendly, confident and thick-skinned.
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You should be thick-skinned as things can get tense on location.
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I can only read comments on political blogs when I'm feeling particularly thick-skinned.
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He was thick-skinned enough to cope with her taunts.
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I'm thick-skinned, but I have a very sensitive wife and daughter.
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No worries, mate; Australians are also famously thick-skinned!
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These data clearly demonstrate that parts of the Scottish basement underwent major thick-skinned tectonics during the Grenvillian orogeny.
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Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
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An embarrassment of apples is easy enough to deal with, either packing them in newspaper if they are the thick-skinned sort that keep, or slicing them, tossing with lemon juice and sugar and freezing them, ready for crumbles and winter breakfasts of stewed apple.
Nigel Slater's runner bean chutney and simple pear tart recipes
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Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
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You don't become a major newspaper columnist without being thick-skinned.