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thick-skinned

adjectiveC1leans spoken

Thick-skinned means not easily hurt by criticism. You have to be thick-skinned, thick-skinned enough for the job, remarkably thick-skinned.

It is usually praise in a job where criticism is constant, and mild blame everywhere else. Its opposite, thin-skinned, is never a compliment.

Definitions of thick-skinned

  1. 1adjectivethick-skinnedNot easily hurt by criticism.C1

    “You need to be thick-skinned to read your own reviews.”

thick-skinned is a quality.

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