as in sensitive
easily offended
she only laughed at the teasing, but a more thin-skinned person would have gotten angry
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Recent Examples of thin-skinned
How petty and pathetic and thin-skinned could this administration get?
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Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Delicate produce including berries, tomatoes—anything that's thin-skinned—should be washed under running lukewarm water.
—Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2025
There's Colbert’s unrelenting criticism of a thin-skinned president while CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, seeks to finalize an $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media, which requires regulatory approval from the federal government.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 22 July 2025
Chef Odysseas Papoulias uses mild, thin-skinned Florina peppers, but red bell pepper will work as well.
—Odysseas Papoulias, Saveur, 10 July 2025
Idris makes his rookie character bristly yet endearing, with the thin-skinned transparency of a generation raised to measure its worth in likes.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
In its ranking of the produce that pesticides stick to the most, better known as the Dirty Dozen, there are a lot of thin-skinned fruits like strawberries, blackberries, grapes and apples.
—Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Frozen green beans While many raw vegetables can be triggering for folks with UC, cooked, canned, and thin-skinned produce, such as green beans, tend to be easier to manage.
—Karla Walsh, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 June 2025
Basically, people are thin-skinned and quick to take offense.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 7 June 2025
Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Delicate produce including berries, tomatoes—anything that's thin-skinned—should be washed under running lukewarm water.
—Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2025
There's Colbert’s unrelenting criticism of a thin-skinned president while CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, seeks to finalize an $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media, which requires regulatory approval from the federal government.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 22 July 2025
Chef Odysseas Papoulias uses mild, thin-skinned Florina peppers, but red bell pepper will work as well.
—Odysseas Papoulias, Saveur, 10 July 2025
Idris makes his rookie character bristly yet endearing, with the thin-skinned transparency of a generation raised to measure its worth in likes.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
In its ranking of the produce that pesticides stick to the most, better known as the Dirty Dozen, there are a lot of thin-skinned fruits like strawberries, blackberries, grapes and apples.
—Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Frozen green beans While many raw vegetables can be triggering for folks with UC, cooked, canned, and thin-skinned produce, such as green beans, tend to be easier to manage.
—Karla Walsh, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 June 2025
Basically, people are thin-skinned and quick to take offense.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 7 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thin-skinned
Adjective
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Bella, now three and a half years old, was described by Overbye as calm, sensitive, quiet, smart, and playful.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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Prevent this by grounding AI in your documents and adding human review for sensitive content.—
Louis Mosca,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Instead, Helen is allowed to be irritable and anti-social, chain-smoking and snappish, without the filmmaker casting judgment.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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If you are rushed or irritable, say so.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The venerable brand has, for well over a century, been a producer of debonair, distinctly British, sport/luxury cars, known mainly for startling good looks and an attitude that is more sophisticated and less tetchy than its Italian rivals.—
Brett Berk,
Robb Report,
3 Sep. 2025
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Britain has since struck a trade deal with the U.S., however, becoming the first country to do so as tetchy trade talks continue for other trading partners, including the European Union which is still waiting to sign a trade agreement with Washington.—
Jenni Reid,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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It’s also oddly bifurcated into two noticeably chunks, with the first half focusing on Hank and Yvonne’s tender but touchy, highly tectchy relationship and the second half leaning into the gonzo forward momentum of a get-the-dough crime flick.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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After Caroline's statement, a Kennedy family insider told PEOPLE that there's always been a touchy dynamic between JFK's daughter and the many children of RFK, noting that Caroline's attack merely brought the tension to the surface.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The first, rather vacuous season hinges in part on whether the Russells’ neighbor—the huffy, old-money Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski)—will ever cross Sixty-first Street to visit.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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Mister Terrific, who is not a humorous man but is very funny because of it, gets very huffy over Superman’s jibes and storms off.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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It’s certainly made for these (end) times: a lushly surreal, cynically ticklish goof on the ineffectiveness of political summits as apocalyptic dread mounts.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Oct. 2024
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While plenty of jokers and pranksters offered responses, most users responded by unexpectedly trauma-dumping on the ticklish Muppet.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
31 Jan. 2024
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“Thin-skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thin-skinned. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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