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Recent Examples of thin-skinned At the same time, Barnes was a crank of operatic grandiosity—thin-skinned, bellicose, distrustful, fickle, and vindictive. Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025 Beyond the drinks and the jokes, one of the hardest lessons he’s learned is how thin-skinned artists can be—especially when the cameras are rolling. Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 29 Jan. 2025 Reed characterizes the Republican response as thin-skinned. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025 This is the same thin-skinned coach who this year closed practice to the media, the same one who last year suspended a Southern California New Group reporter for alleged violations of the program’s media policy. Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024 This is especially true for your soft, thin-skinned produce like berries or spinach. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024 In the view of one of his old friends, Vance, in becoming a national figure, has also become more thin-skinned, not unlike many of the tech titans who support him. Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 Shore explains that thin-skinned squash like delicata or butternut have the most edible skins. Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2024 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, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thin-skinned
Adjective
  • However, people with sensitive skin may experience mild skin irritation, which is often more prevalent with higher percentages of urea.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Her role focused on safeguarding the CFPB's sensitive data, including transaction records from credit reporting agencies, complaints filed by citizens, and information from Big Tech companies under investigation.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Strong winds also may have North Texans feeling more irritable, which scientists blame on there being too many positive ions in the air.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Signs of overextension burnout include feeling emotionally drained, becoming irritable and struggling to focus—all of which can affect both your work and personal life.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Trading was tetchy at first, floating between flat and a 1.5 percent gain.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Read more Tesla's share price recovers ground after tetchy start Elon Musk's claims linking Ukraine to X outage spark backlash You're Fired!
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In his acceptance speech for winning best director, Baker issued a call to arms over the touchy subject of how long a title plays exclusively in theaters before going to homes.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
  • And others point out that targeting churches, temples and other religious institution remains a politically touchy issue.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Its engagingly huffy maestro, Michel Troisgros, is preparing to hand over the reins to César, his eldest son and head chef.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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