| They bear grudges, are thin-skinned, loud, quarrelsome, like to assert themselves, and lose their temper easily. |
| Flat clips, for example, are used for fast and careful closure of thin-skinned natural casings. |
| Yet he was famously thin-skinned and irascible, as I have good reason to remember, if any criticism became directed at himself. |
| He is a clever bully, brutal in his criticism of others but so thin-skinned that he resorts instantly to the libel laws to cow his own critics. |
| She is a thin-skinned politician who has been wounded by acres of speculation about everything from her dress sense to her sense of humour. |
| Nice, young, caring, thin-skinned doctors might be psychologically traumatised. |
