What do you call a person who is easily offended or can't take criticism?

To be thin-skinned is to be sensitive, especially to criticism and slights. Thin-skinned people are quick to take offense.

If your skin is literally thin, soft, and tender, like a baby's is, then you're going to be hurt more easily if you get scraped or cut. Similarly, a thin-skinned person gets emotionally hurt more often than most people. If you're thin-skinned, you take criticism, rejection, disappointment, and failure very hard. Being left out of anything could be perceived as a major insult. If you forget a thin-skinned person's birthday, they’ll probably hold a grudge.

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Nancy Chisholm

Sounds like an old orange snowflake running for a political office to me.

Mic Fenst

Noelle Waugh, Used by one political party in the USA. Hardly as well known as the correct answer.

Karin Johansson

Jerry Edwards, yes the orange one

Karin Johansson

fdeisner, and now he cries because Fox news did present a poll that said only 44 % approved on him. But not about Reuters presented one where only 37 % approved on him. He was so sad his servants are starting to leave him. They have to if they wants to keep any good rates

Karin Johansson

Phil Kennelty, the real snowflakes are the ones that wants it to be as it was before the Civil war

Chip Combs

I'd call them Liberals.

Phil Kennelty

A Snowflake?

billyboy915

klmilles, It needed to be said. It was my pleasure.

billyboy915

fdeisner, Drumpf has 34 felony convictions. If the US military will not accept convicted FELONS, why should he qualify to be Commander-In-Chief?

fdeisner

I agree with what several people have already commented on is that the orange ex 45th president can dish it out relentlessly but cannot take any comments about himself. He also demands 100% loyalty and offers 0% loyalty in return as his only interest is in himself. He should be nowhere near the Oval Office. Many of the conservatives profess that felons should not be allowed to vote even after they served their sentence, yet they get behind a convicted felon for president. That makes totally no sense at all as it is a major contradiction.

klmilles

billyboy915, well said. thanks.

billyboy915

Keith Richard Mears, Snowflake can describe conservatives well when they realize how petty they are and how narrow and homogeneous their tiny little worlds are. BTW, it takes strength to be woke. Woke means being alert to injustice, especially for those not exactly like you or when that injustice doesn't effect you personally. To be woke is to be well-informed, thoughtful, compassionate, humble, and kind. Being woke is to be eager to make the world a better place for ALL people. Being woke is to be a real human being, blind to diffences, open minded and accepting. The Jewish people of Europe have a word for it; a Mensch. Be a Mensch. Be woke Don't be a snowflake!