How To Use Thin-skinned In A Sentence
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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.
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The latest gibe between the pair came after Warne called Muralidaran ‘thin-skinned’ for pulling out of Sri Lanka's tour of Australia.
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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
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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
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At the very same time, he was also seen as deeply irascible: thin-skinned, emotionally volatile, easily provoked, quick to take offense.
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I am not very tough yet, I am not very hardened - at times this sensitivity may make me thin-skinned about criticism.
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Some fear he is too thin-skinned to survive the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign.
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Some of us, at certain times of our life, are very sensitive to this and very thin-skinned.
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Yet he was famously thin-skinned and irascible, as I have good reason to remember, if any criticism became directed at himself.
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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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Constructed from body hugging, double layer neoprene, the thin-skinned but protective padding of this slick sleeve isolates your digital camera from life's hard knocks and cutting edge dangers.
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Continue to imagine this going on while a very hostile crowd, which has a major case of the "I hate your guts cause you jilted my team" hangover, is screaming God-knows-what at the apparently thin-skinned LeBrick.
Tom Pappalardo: Why the Bulls Will Beat the Heat in Eastern Conference Finals
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They are everything you could possibly hope for in a tomato - stark red, heavy in your hand, thin-skinned and fleshy, fragrant, sweet and juicy.
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Folks, I submit that somebody this immature and thin-skinned has no business dealing with even 18-year-olds.
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Her face was pale, thin-skinned, the forehead high, the black hair springing back from it was coiled in a bun.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Thin-skinned, labile, multi-hued and engaging, these poems enact as much as describe.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Displaying not a little control-freakery, some thin-skinned bloggers - who notoriously shun dissonant views - were quick to welcome the move.
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Yet he was famously thin-skinned and irascible, as I have good reason to remember, if any criticism became directed at himself.
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Some fear he is too thin-skinned to survive the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign.
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His rule was bedevilled by constant friction with a well-entrenched ‘Anabaptist’ faction, which his thin-skinned, slightly paranoid nature made him too prickly in handling.
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The Japanese navy maximized these characteristics by developing thin-skinned shells, allowing a far greater percentage of the munition's weight to be made of explosives, which produced a much greater bursting effect.
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So, proceed calmly to Tabata Noodle, a cheerful, clean storefront with house-made soups, crispy thin-skinned pork dumplings known as gyoza and a few other fragrant opportunities worth a quick jaunt for lunch.
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He is cantankerous, idealistic, blinkered, thin-skinned, romantic, a man of the ‘enlightenment’ but curiously unenlightened himself.
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Why are these defensive-sounding scientists and thin-skinned writers getting so overexcited?
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Nice, young, caring, thin-skinned doctors might be psychologically traumatised.
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The rich and powerful, who are notoriously thin-skinned, can all too easily launch a libel action in the UK.
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But his egotism, thin-skinnedness and mulish belief that his critics are motivated by envy and party politics made him a tiresome figure in the end.
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She wrote: "rick apologized to jon stewart today. they had a good talk. jon was gracious and called rick, 'thin-skinned.' he's right.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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He was paranoid, obsessive, perfectionist, thin-skinned and self-righteous, and his diary is the long story of a man going mad and taking forty years over it.
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Thanks, I just like to annoy the trolls and it seems I got to him … all I said was get off your lazy ass and he started lashing out … What a thin-skinned troll …
Think Progress » Confused Karl Rove Falsely Accuses Obama Of Having ‘A Little Bit Of Confusion’ About Stimulus Jobs Numbers
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Between that and not linking to this post, she seems awfully thin-skinned and petty.
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And we ask: are judges too thin-skinned when it comes to criticism?
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Many rabid political partisans are so thin-skinned that any unfavorable truth about their heroes muddles their thinking.
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The horses passed and repassed one another, beautiful thin-skinned equines in rich shades of mahogany and brown.
BARN BLIND
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Powell regards himself as "thin-skinned," said this adviser, and he worried that he would let himself be "baited" by the far right.
Why He Got Out
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But the fallout from the incident has highlighted his weaknesses, casting him as both a thin-skinned brawler who berates reporters for asking questions and a publicity hog who seems to relish media attention, no matter how it comes his way.
Ambitious Weiner sees media strategy backfire
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That can happen to rich guys, particularly touchy, thin-skinned rich guys who prefer to surround themselves with yes-men.
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ridgy" work and endures the horror of seeing the gentle, thin-skinned creatures bleed under his awkward shears.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
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We can no longer be pussyfooting around thinking how thin-skinned people are when dealing with the matter of national security.
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Thin-skinned, labile, multi-hued and engaging, these poems enact as much as describe.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Other scientists are exploring personal qualities that span phylogenies and allegories: Recent research suggests that highly sensitive, arty-type humans have a lot in common with squealing pigs and twitchy mice, and that to call a hypersensitive person thin-skinned or touchy might hold a grain of physical truth.
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But when he goes behind the curtain and sheds the costume, a flinty, thin-skinned, immature man who has never taken responsibility for his mistakes emerges.
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Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of.
Watershed
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Walther Bothe was brilliant, disciplined, and notoriously thin-skinned
Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics
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He shows himself to be an ill-mannered, thin-skinned, easily flattered narcissistic ignoramus, given to stupid jokes, banal observations, casual rudeness and hypocritical pieties.
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One of these common beliefs is that "thin-skinned" thrust plates are stratigraphically controlled thrusts with little or no involvement in thrusting of crystalline basement.
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And just a few days ago I was castigating someone else for being a thin-skinned Narcissist.
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I'm alarmed that people over the age of 16 can act so unpleasantly towards their fellow humans, but I suppose that makes me naive and thin-skinned.
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My father is an ex-serviceman. As he is introspective and taciturn, I seldom hear the word "love" in his speech even once. According to mother's evaluation, he is a thin-skinned man.
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Craig has always been very thin-skinned that way - he reacts very badly to criticism.
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That this witty pioneer of the blogosphere, who made her name deflating the pretentions of the insider club of thin-skinned mediawhores no longer identifies with that sentiment is a cautionary tale.
Hullabaloo
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Why are these defensive-sounding scientists and thin-skinned writers getting so overexcited?
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Braying an ordinary fool in a mortar is an unpromising job; but an extraordinary official leatherhead, PLUS thin-skinned conscience, and religious scruples, requires the upper and nether mill stone.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
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Instead, it lies with an increasing number of liberal intellectuals who once supported him but now regard him as being too thin-skinned, overbearing and – they fear – increasingly authoritarian.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Is 'Papa' still a father figure to Turks? | Observer profile
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Berlin is sharper still on his own thin-skinned self. He belittles his large philosophical gifts, finds publication an agony and worries to correspondents that his work is rot.
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They are smallish, bright green, thin-skinned, bell-shaped peppers that are very flavorful but usually not hot, although there may be one or two hot ones in every few dozen.
Your Guide to the Best in Summer Food
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Thin-skinned crab ravioli are adrift in a gingery consommé studded with the same golden beets that brighten up his citrus-and-miso-dressed mesclun salad.
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From a notoriously thin-skinned TV celebrity to an ageing novelist of the club generation, the pastiches are as transparent as they are hilarious.
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A novelist and playwright himself, this might seem like the special pleading of a thin-skinned but hard-necked writer who fears that his own literary endeavours will never stand up to serious appraisal.
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She is a thin-skinned politician who has been wounded by acres of speculation about everything from her dress sense to her sense of humour.
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One half the hermit crab is as naked as the "human animal," and even less fitted for exposure; for it consists of a thin-skinned, soft, unmuscular bag, filled with delicate viscera; but not even the human animal is more skilful in clothing himself in the spoils of other animals than the hermit crab in wrapping up its naked bag in the strong shell of some dead fusus or buccinum, which it carries about with it in all its peregrinations, as at once clothes, armor, and house.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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One is U.S. sensitivity to the Mexican elite, which can be thin-skinned about what it regards as infringements from the north on its national sovereignty.
The Fall of Mexico
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As a result, the Marines would have to depend on thin-skinned amphibian tractors, or amtracs, barely tested at Guadalcanal.
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Clearly they have never seen their thin-skinned hero actually respond to criticism.
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At the very same time, Teller was also seen as deeply irascible: thin-skinned, emotionally volatile, easily provoked, quick to take offense.
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Many rabid political partisans are so thin-skinned that any unfavorable truth about their heroes muddles their thinking.
