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
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.
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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
Like Teddy, Trump is thin-skinned and inclined to use the power of the presidency to punish political enemies.
—Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 18 May 2025
His most successful commander, the dashing, fearless and thin-skinned Gen. Benedict Arnold, is repeatedly slighted.
—Amy S. Greenberg, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Martin Winkler, Fort Lauderdale Protecting PBS, NPR Americans have never elevated a more thin-skinned, petulant person to the presidency than the current guy.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2025
Matt and his direct reports quickly reveal themselves to be spineless, self-important, thin-skinned, and out of touch.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Poilievre and DeSantis, both infamously thin-skinned, are the epitome of being able to dish it out but not take it.
—Drew Nelles, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
With their thousands of submunitions or fragments, the M30 and the larger Army Tactical Missile System rocket—fired by the same launchers—are optimized for strikes on thin-skinned targets.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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
Like Teddy, Trump is thin-skinned and inclined to use the power of the presidency to punish political enemies.
—Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 18 May 2025
His most successful commander, the dashing, fearless and thin-skinned Gen. Benedict Arnold, is repeatedly slighted.
—Amy S. Greenberg, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Martin Winkler, Fort Lauderdale Protecting PBS, NPR Americans have never elevated a more thin-skinned, petulant person to the presidency than the current guy.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2025
Matt and his direct reports quickly reveal themselves to be spineless, self-important, thin-skinned, and out of touch.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Poilievre and DeSantis, both infamously thin-skinned, are the epitome of being able to dish it out but not take it.
—Drew Nelles, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
With their thousands of submunitions or fragments, the M30 and the larger Army Tactical Missile System rocket—fired by the same launchers—are optimized for strikes on thin-skinned targets.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thin-skinned
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American military and diplomatic outposts across the globe are on high alert after a U.S. bombing raid on Saturday struck three of Iran’s most sensitive nuclear facilities, prompting vows of retaliation from Tehran and raising fears of a widening regional war.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
23 June 2025
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Rochester recommends baby shampoo to get your hair and makeup brushes grease-free and without any additives that may irritate sensitive face skin.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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Her tone is free-associative, irritable and rat-a-tat.—
Alexandra Jacobs,
New York Times,
1 June 2025
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When an owner is distracted or irritable from work stress, the dog notices.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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Her new novel, Spent, tells the story of one Alison Bechdel, a tetchy lesbian cartoonist running a pygmy-goat sanctuary in Vermont who is trying to write a memoir about the corrupting influence of money.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
16 June 2025
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One is her ex, the struggling, somewhat tetchy actor/caterer John, played by Chris Evans.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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Few things in life are touchier or more prone to argument than the topic of favorite sports movies.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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Sun Sentinel Asking Eric: My son begged us not to bring up our grievance to his touchy in-laws His wife’s parents make all the holiday plans, and we’re never invited.—
South Florida Sun Sentinel,
Sun Sentinel,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Although an entire city beckons, the first 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.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
24 June 2025
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Inevitably all this tumult attracts the attention of a trio of huffy rival confectioners, Slugworth (Paterson Joseph), Prodnose (Matt Lucas), and Fickelgruber (Mathew Baynton).—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
15 Dec. 2023
Adjective
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Rubbing underarm is selected as a target motion of robot because previous research suggests that this is the best way for making humans feel ticklish.—
Erico Guizzo,
IEEE Spectrum,
14 Oct. 2016
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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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