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thin-skinned

/thin-skind/US // ˈθɪnˈskɪnd //

脸皮薄,厚脸皮,脸皮厚,脸皮薄的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a thin skin.
    • : sensitive to criticism, reproach, or rebuff; easily offended; touchy: a thin-skinned poet.

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Examples

  • Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.

  • That officer believed my fair-skinned son was white, according to the traffic citation I examined.

  • “I like decorating my slaves,” she said, referencing the rope, her thin, crimson-coated lips peeling off her front teeth.

  • So there was that, but from the point and for her whole life, she was such a beautiful brown-skinned woman.

  • Cheney is relying on some thin evidence to tie Hussein to al-Qaida.

  • This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.

  • The Princess was pale and thin; and, though dressed superbly, seemed fitter for her chamber.

  • Her thin and narrow hands held the balcony railing rather tightly.

  • His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.

  • She saw in the chair a thin, broken figure, a drawn brown face, a wreck of a man.