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Anyone who is woundable by an occasional dip in prices isn’t rich enough to count.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 13, 2015

He felt himself colour at the question, and then hated that—hated to pass for anything so idiotic as woundable.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry

I've often heard Bart say that men's feelings are very woundable at forty, while at twenty-five a hurt closes up like water after a pebble has been dropped in it.

From The Garden, You, and I by Wright, Mabel Osgood