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
More delicate, thin-skinned fruit like mandarins and Meyer lemons require a more hands-on approach using snips.
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Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026
While some might depict the NFL as thin-skinned in challenging the report cards, both the league and union use arbitration to enforce CBA provisions.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 13 Feb. 2026
The football world overflows with thin-skinned, insecure coaches.
—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Two such traits, being thin-skinned and suffering from an interior monologue of unending self-doubt, are often identified as negatives.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Instead Linda devolves, becoming more pugnacious and thin-skinned and pissed off.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
Yukon gold and red potatoes are thin-skinned so there’s no need to peel them.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 11 Dec. 2025
The Tyndall effect, a bluish discoloration from filler that has been injected too superficially, is another possible side effect and is most commonly seen in the thin-skinned undereye area.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
Russet potatoes with thick skins typically need to cure a little longer than thin-skinned varieties, but most potatoes should be dry and fully cured within two weeks.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026
While some might depict the NFL as thin-skinned in challenging the report cards, both the league and union use arbitration to enforce CBA provisions.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 13 Feb. 2026
The football world overflows with thin-skinned, insecure coaches.
—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Two such traits, being thin-skinned and suffering from an interior monologue of unending self-doubt, are often identified as negatives.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Instead Linda devolves, becoming more pugnacious and thin-skinned and pissed off.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
Yukon gold and red potatoes are thin-skinned so there’s no need to peel them.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 11 Dec. 2025
The Tyndall effect, a bluish discoloration from filler that has been injected too superficially, is another possible side effect and is most commonly seen in the thin-skinned undereye area.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
Russet potatoes with thick skins typically need to cure a little longer than thin-skinned varieties, but most potatoes should be dry and fully cured within two weeks.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thin-skinned
Adjective
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Fears around migration in Turkey Migration is a sensitive topic in Turkey, which at one point was hosting nearly 4 million Syrian refugees.—
Serra Yedikardes,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Australia’s policy-sensitive three-year yield climbed to its highest level since 2011, while German bund futures slid to an almost 15-year low.—
Marcus Wong,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Rather than get irritable online, Medeiros did something positive about it.—
Dan Medeiros,
The Herald News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Manic episodes are described as prolonged periods of mood instability, in which a person can experience extreme increases in energy or euphoria, or alternatively, feel depressed or unusually irritable.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Edgily eager to shoot their scenes and get a move on with their acting lives, the increasingly tetchy trio are stuck in virtual drydock as all actual moviemaking has drained away.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
10 Mar. 2026
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On the eve of the spring classics, the atmosphere is tetchy.—
Chris Marshall-Bell,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Other subjects are touchier, including the sport’s fast-approaching labor war.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Production assistants told Albuquerque police that Busfield was sometimes touchy or unprofessional.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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He is seen as favoring Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank, to take over WEF, though her huffy exit this year from a dinner stacked with US government officials may make things awkward.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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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
Adjective
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Transporting the patient 12 miles to Hartford Hospital would be ticklish.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2026
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Yes, their contempt votes are politically ticklish.—
Michelle Cottle,
Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2026
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