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thin-skinned

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ADJECTIVE
  1. quick to take offense

How To Use thin-skinned In A Sentence

  • He is a clever bully, brutal in his criticism of others but so thin-skinned that he resorts instantly to the libel laws to cow his own critics.
  • The latest gibe between the pair came after Warne called Muralidaran ‘thin-skinned’ for pulling out of Sri Lanka's tour of Australia.
  • If spud advocates are feeling a bit thin-skinned, it may be because the potato has suffered snubs in recent years. Spuds, on the Verge of Being Expelled, Start a Food Fight in the Cafeteria
  • Call the Wahh-mbulance -- Jack Kelly of The Blade proves once again that he's both a craven hypocrite and a thin-skinned whiner. Short Takes
  • At the very same time, he was also seen as deeply irascible: thin-skinned, emotionally volatile, easily provoked, quick to take offense.
  • I am not very tough yet, I am not very hardened - at times this sensitivity may make me thin-skinned about criticism.
  • Some fear he is too thin-skinned to survive the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign.
  • Some of us, at certain times of our life, are very sensitive to this and very thin-skinned.
  • Yet he was famously thin-skinned and irascible, as I have good reason to remember, if any criticism became directed at himself.
  • Any politician that would get into a "catfight" with Letterman is too thin-skinned to be a mayor, much less a governor or president of anything. Rove: Palin's resignation lacks clear strategy
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