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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thin-skinned
adjective
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▪ Maud Bailey was a thin-skinned Princess.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thin-skinned

Thin-skinned \Thin"-skinned`\, a. Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.

Wiktionary
thin-skinned

a. 1 (&lit thin skinned English) 2 (context idiomatic English) overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy

WordNet
thin-skinned

adj. quick to take offense [syn: huffy, touchy]

Usage examples of "thin-skinned".

Prague, six years ago, on learning that some thin-skinned ladies, on reading my flight from The Leads, which was published at that date, took great offense at the above account, which they thought I should have done well to leave out.

The fire control radar could pick up bogies twelve miles out, could lock on and track at a range of five miles, could knock thin-skinned targets out of the sky from almost two miles away.

The submarine panic had reflected the fear of the Salt Lake City skipper -fear he had himself felt-of the vulnerability of these beautiful, heavily armed, thin-skinned monsters.

Too bad Jim Cole didn't order up some gumbo-limbos, cause them trees is scraggily, thin-skinned, always red and peeling.