His thick-skinned savagery did not appear to feel either shame or remorse; he was strong and had a weighty handthat was sufficient.

However, a certain thick-skinned indifference may develop to protect the sufferer.

If he were less thick-skinned she would be the death of him; but fortunately he has the hide of a rhinoceros.

He was a man who blinded himself with words and beautiful sentiments; but he was not thick-skinned or thick-witted.

callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious; hardened; inured, casehardened; steeled against, proof against; imperturbable &c (inexcitable) 826

A marginal note of W. P. would serve for a winding-sheet for that man's works, like thick-skinned fruits are all rind, fit for nothing but the author's fate, to be pared in a pillory.

Ay, he was a worker in the fields, no doubt, a thick-skinned fellow, not used to looking over fine at things, nothing delicate beyond measure; there were things he was obliged to do, and he looked to what was useful first of all.

Axel had never a thought of, burying her in the ground; he is a thick-skinned fellow, looking mainly to what is useful; a pathway carpeted with flowers is beyond his needs.

And even such a thick-skinned animal as a rhinoceros likes to plaster himself with mud to keep away the insects.

However thick-skinned a man may be, and protected over all by the oes triplex of self-sufficiency, he cannot escape being wounded by furious and incessant attacks.

It's a mistake, except with thick-skinned foreign ones.

She's as superstitious as an old woman; and yet she will swear to that lie with oaths that make me uncomfortable, although I am pretty thick-skinned in religious matters.

Being quite thick-skinned, one went in once again for another interview when advertised subsequently, only to be told that it was just as well one had returned, as the earlier applications had got misplaced!)

A needy or thick-skinned urban councillor or guardian may at any moment tempt, or be tempted, by a poor relation who helped him at his election, and for whom (perhaps as the result of a tacit understanding that similar favours should be allowed to his colleagues), he obtained a municipal post.

'I do,' said Shand, who was thick-skinned and irrepressible.

He was thick-skinned and irrepressible, but Caldigate endeavoured to show his displeasure.

Elements of glory were in this life he had lived, but those who belonged to it, whom Cairns had observed heretofore, were thick-skinned; men of unlit consciousness and hardened hearts, gruelling companions to whom there was no deadly sin but physical cowardice, and only muscular virtues.

If in timber, however, the jaguar must kill it at once, for the squat, thick-skinned, wedge- shaped tapir has no respect for timber, as Colonel Rondon phrased it, and rushes with such blind, headlong speed through and among branches and trunks that if not immediately killed it brushes the jaguar off, the claws leaving long raking scars in the tough hide.

These enormous thick-skinned quadrupeds are not natives of the New World.

And they were, indeed, these thick-skinned animals, with a big head, a large, swollen snout, a mouth armed with teeth which extend a foot beyond itanimals which are squat on their short limbs, the skin of which, unprovided with hair, is of a tawny red.

He was not one of those men who are so thick-skinned that hard speeches are not felt by them.

Let us try for the future to be thick-skinned, and when Gashmu's tongue is whispering, and whenever some busybody like Sanballat repeats Gashmu's words to us, let us act as Nehemiah did.

You were deucedly insolentbut my people are thick-skinned.

For untold centuries they have been in the habit of crawling over thick-skinned faces and bodies, and not being dislodged.

He was the Grouchy who made futile Grant's advance upon Richmond and he blundered at Fort Fisher, but he was a pachyderm of the toughesttoo thick-skinned to be troubled by the scratches of criticism, always floundering to the front with unquenched energy, sometimes a power for good and sometimes for evil.