Sentence examples for was thin-skinned from inspiring English sources
adjective
Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy
- She's rather thin-skinned when it comes to comments about her work.
"Bruce was thin-skinned," Dr. Anderson said.
Mrs. Clinton was thin-skinned and took criticism hard.
He was thin-skinned about his own appearance, and he tinkered with it continually.
He could be a bully (self-righteously chucking journalists out of the school where they were writing their copy), but was thin-skinned too.
Sirs was thin-skinned and not always a great negotiator, and he took personally against some of the notably macho BSC leadership, including Bob Scholey, the chief executive, and later Ian MacGregor.
In contrast to Wagner, who knew he was great and could brush off adverse opinion, or to Schoenberg, who would not renounce his hated 12-tone system and return to the plush world of his "Verklarte Nacht," Tchaikovsky was thin-skinned.
The government is thin-skinned about criticism.
Not that I'm thin-skinned.
She is thin-skinned, fatigued, and full of embattled chagrin.
And one of the traditions is being thin-skinned".
