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Meanings of too thin-skinned in English

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Usage of too thin-skinned in English
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I mean, he was a far more, far too thin-skinned for that.
The new yorker
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They laughed, making jest of the affair; but they were both too thin-skinned.
The Trespasser
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Lord Rosebery was too thin-skinned, too conscious to be really happy.
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
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Another was academics: far too thin-skinned and unworldly for the rough-and-tumble of political life.
The Guardian
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He would have described his own weakness as caused, perhaps, by a too thin-skinned sensitiveness.
The Eustace Diamonds
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Probably I am too thin-skinned.
Our Friend John Burroughs
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The babies seem too tiny, too thin-skinned and transparent to be hooked up to the myriad tubes, drains and ventilators.
The Irish Times
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Sarah Sands now edits the Today programme, where a former editor once assured us that women were too thin-skinned to take the pressure.
The Guardian
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It resents the fact that its achievements are not recognised, but it is too thin-skinned to get stuck into PR on its own behalf.
The Guardian
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"My boy," he assured me, "you are too thin-skinned.
Twelve Men
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"Yes,-hesays I'm toothin-skinned."
The Veiled Lady, and Other Men and Women
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"Greyhounds are too thin-skinned to fight a Wolf, Danes are too slow, but you'll see the fur fly when the Russians take a hand."
Animal Heroes
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