Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thick-skinned
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ You don't become a major newspaper columnist without being thick-skinned.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If he was so thick-skinned that he couldn't see when he wasn't wanted then that was his problem.
▪ In the discussion, however, Chadwick et.al., remain firmly in favour of a thick-skinned interpretation.
▪ Oh, we are quite thick-skinned, the journos chorused.
▪ She supposed you had to be pretty thick-skinned to be a Member of Parliament.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thick-skinned
Thick-skinned \Thick"-skinned`\, a.
Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.
--Holland.
Wiktionary
thick-skinned
a. 1 Having a thick skin. 2 Not easily offended. 3 insensitive to the feelings of others; callous.
WordNet
thick-skinned
adj. emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous]
Usage examples of "thick-skinned".
From the deck Sanglant could see five ships, one ahead and four behind, as well as a few fires burning on the strand upriver, but only the foolhardy or the thick-skinned ventured to shore, where gnats and stinging flies swarmed.