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View synonyms for skinned

skinned

/ skɪnd /

adjective

  1. stripped of the skin
    1. having a skin as specified
    2. ( in combination )

      thick-skinned

  2. keep one's eyes skinned
    keep one's eyes skinnedkeep one's eyes peeled to watch carefully


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That officer believed my fair-skinned son was white, according to the traffic citation I examined.

So there was that, but from the point and for her whole life, she was such a beautiful brown-skinned woman.

As he scribbled in his journal, “How to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable, and still alive?”

For these self-righteous and thin-skinned folks, there are apparently limits to the liberal virtue of tolerance.

Some say it is used as a date-rape drug by dark-skinned men.

The dead animal after being skinned is cut up and boiled in large cauldrons until the flesh is separated from the bones.

At its southwestern end we find the most long-headed, prognathous, frizzly-haired, dark-skinned race of mankind.

At its northeastern end is the most round-headed, orthognathous, straight-haired, and yellow-skinned race.

Toward sun-down when they had skinned the tiger, they found its length to be nine feet, not counting the tail.

The brown-skinned, dark-haired man appeared in the entrance of the tent and spoke haltingly in English.

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