thin skin
noun
: a tendency to get easily upset or offended by the things other people say or do
He has such a thin skin that he can't even take a little good-natured teasing.
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Advertisement All because Trump has thin skin and his cogs of government bureaucracy are happy to give him cover.
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Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
And that must really get under that thin skin.
—Chris Brennan, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Applying a little to protect the thin skin of your lips from cold winds, searing sun, or any other force that might dry, chap, and crack them feels both common sense and routine.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
Colbert was canceled because the president has thin skin and despises anyone who tells jokes about him, but Colbert was also preaching to the converted.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
Trump’s rallies, inflammatory language, thin skin toward criticism, obsession with crowd size and media coverage — Çifci suggests these to be symptoms of a personality driven by defensive grandiosity.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
The plastic acts as a protective barrier to the thin skin, extending the life of your English cucumbers by up to a week.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 May 2025
Mark Ruffalo’s Kenneth Marshall character, a flamboyant and flailing politician leading the sci-fi film’s space expedition toward colonizing an ice planet, has distinctly Trumpian qualities in the way his thin skin manifests itself.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
If constant eyebrow furrowing has resulted in the first signs of an angry crease, or premature crow’s feet due to naturally thin skin are a persistent cause of frustration, injectables can help.
—Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2025
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Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
And that must really get under that thin skin.
—Chris Brennan, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Applying a little to protect the thin skin of your lips from cold winds, searing sun, or any other force that might dry, chap, and crack them feels both common sense and routine.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
Colbert was canceled because the president has thin skin and despises anyone who tells jokes about him, but Colbert was also preaching to the converted.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
Trump’s rallies, inflammatory language, thin skin toward criticism, obsession with crowd size and media coverage — Çifci suggests these to be symptoms of a personality driven by defensive grandiosity.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
The plastic acts as a protective barrier to the thin skin, extending the life of your English cucumbers by up to a week.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 May 2025
Mark Ruffalo’s Kenneth Marshall character, a flamboyant and flailing politician leading the sci-fi film’s space expedition toward colonizing an ice planet, has distinctly Trumpian qualities in the way his thin skin manifests itself.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
If constant eyebrow furrowing has resulted in the first signs of an angry crease, or premature crow’s feet due to naturally thin skin are a persistent cause of frustration, injectables can help.
—Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Thin skin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thin%20skin. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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