thick-skinned

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thick-skinned (comparative thicker-skinned, superlative thickest-skinned)

  1. Having a thick skin.
  2. Not easily offended.
  3. Insensitive to the feelings of others; callous.
  4. (obsolete) Obtuse, thick, intellectually dull or insensitive.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. []. Chapter I”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, [] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, [], London: [] Hen[ry] Brome [], →OCLC, page 1:
      They that are ſo thick skinned as ſtill to credit the ſtory of the Phœnix, may ſay ſomething for animall burning: []

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