Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a thin rind or skin.
- adjective Oversensitive, especially to criticism or insult.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a thin skin; hence, unduly sensitive; easily offended; irritable.
- Having merely a thin superstratum of good soil: said of land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a thin skin
- adjective idiomatic
overly sensitive tocriticism ; quick to takeoffence ;irritable ;touchy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective quick to take offense
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Examples
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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 2010
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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 …
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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 2011
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Between that and not linking to this post, she seems awfully thin-skinned and petty.
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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.
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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 2009
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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 Tom Pappalardo 2011
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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 Tom Pappalardo 2011
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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 Jennifer Levitz 2011
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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 2009
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