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Tough-skinned   /təf-skɪnd/   Listen
Tough-skinned

adjective
1.
Having a relatively tough outer covering.
2.
Insensitive to criticism.  Synonym: thick-skinned.





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"Tough-skinned" Quotes from Famous Books



... Station and the post of McClelland's Station fled to Boonesborough and Harrodsburg. In all that region there were only one hundred and fifty white men, to protect the women and children; but they were men such as Daniel Boone and his brother Squire Boone; the tough-skinned Simon Kenton whose touch-and-go escapes are related in Chapter V; tall James Harrod and Benjamin Logan; George Rogers Clark, soon to found Louisville and to conquer the "Illinois country" bordering upon the Mississippi River; William Whitley, captain of Rangers; and many another, ...
— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin
... fact which, though often dull enough, nevertheless continues generally to convince, at least in respect to Cowperwood's business enterprises. The American financier, after all, has rarely had much subtlety in his make-up. Single-minded, tough-skinned, ruthless, "suggesting a power which invents man for one purpose and no other, as generals, saints, and the like are invented," he shoulders and hurls his bulk through a sea of troubles and carries off his spoils. ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren


Words linked to "Tough-skinned" :   tough, insensitive


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