thin-skinned
Speech parts
1. thin-skinned - Adjective
2. thin-skinned - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.
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Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself, and that is just one of the many reasons he will never be president of the United States, unfortunately just like Hillary Clinton.
Adult salmon may survive otherwise critical numbers of sea lice, but small, thin-skinned juvenile salmon migrating to sea are highly vulnerable.
Bloomberg countered by declaring that Sanders is espousing “communism,” but it came across as thin-skinned and overheated.
If, on the other hand, they were expected to reinforce a battle line of dreadnoughts with their own heavy guns, they were too thin-skinned to be safe from an enemy's heavy guns.
Schmid, 99 High "massifs" with external sedimentary cover are more common in the Western Alps and were affected by Neogene Period thin-skinned thrusting whereas the Eastern Alps have comparatively few high peaked massifs.
Prosecco is also the name of the thin-skinned green grape that makes the wine.