Adjective : a pachydermatous indifference to insults. From Dictionary.com.
Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
By and by he will take the hint, if not wholly pachydermatous, and go away of his own accord. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Pray, my good Sir, does a man go to see the elephant only to call him a pachydermatous quadruped?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
Those having the fewest dermal plates were most agile, while their more pachydermatous mates toiled in ponderous slow motion. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Farther on, the pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks to dispute its prey with the anoplotherium. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
But even a Flamburian may at last be pierced; and then (as with other pachydermatous animals) the hole, once made, is almost certain to grow larger. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
This combination, of ratlike claws and pachydermatous-size insteps, causes the subject to be very cautious about where, and indeed when, he takes off his shoes. From Wordnik.com. [On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part I] Reference
Indifferent in perfunctory movements, taking money and threading her flowers, the saleswoman was as pachydermatous and robotic as the old woman and everyone else was. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Why not add to the first class the pachydermatous indifference to rebuffs which is of such service to the social climber, and, to the second, taste in dress and the habit of not repeating stories?. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
No proboscis can pierce that pachydermatous hide of his. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Prandial Philosophy] Reference
He shrinks from appearing less pachydermatous than the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
The only other pachydermatous animal besides the tapir indigenous to. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
His words cut through the somewhat pachydermatous sensibilities of Sim. From Wordnik.com. [The Sagebrusher A Story of the West] Reference
They may be called, indeed, not inaptly the pachydermatous race of bipeds. From Wordnik.com. [Social relations in our Southern States,] Reference
British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference
Nature, it would seem, has fashioned him neither pachydermatous nor pugilistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster] Reference
Mrs. Chapman was a stout, dewlapped old lady, with dull eyes and pachydermatous folds in her face. From Wordnik.com. [The Talking Horse And Other Tales] Reference
The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
But no amount of travel, no association with his betters, could pierce his stolid pachydermatous obliquity. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
He recognizes the pachydermatous skin of the beggar boys in the dark and wrinkled envelope of the old oaks. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
The hog has survived changes which have swept multitudes of pachydermatous animals from the surface of our earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
Then the pachydermatous one enters into the other's heaven, probably with the resolution already formed of ousting that unhappy angel. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
She had sent him a lovely letter in the Taal making this appointment, causing his pachydermatous hide to know the needle-prick of curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
Farther on, the pachydermatous Lophrodon, that gigantic tapir, which concealed itself behind rocks, ready to do battle for its prey with the. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage au centre de la terre. English] Reference
If society is to go on, either we must all be so pachydermatous as to be able to disregard draughts, or we must feel them and act accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916] Reference
Do you think they were pachydermatous coleoptera of the dor tribe, who had just fallen from red-oak trees, and did not know that they were trampled upon?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Do It] Reference
All noble and sweet beliefs grow with the growing nobleness and tenderness of characters sensitive to those fine revealings which pachydermatous souls can never know. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Surely, a menace to Granville Kelmscott's prospects could never have moved that heavy, phlegmatic, pachydermatous man to such an outburst of anger and suppressed fear. From Wordnik.com. [What's Bred in the Bone] Reference
So pachydermatous, so thick-skinned, that nothing can go through them. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference
A nervous surface quite as pachydermatous and indiscriminating as that of an ox. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors] Reference
It is of huge dimensions and resembles in its outlines the figure of a rhinoceros or some such pachydermatous creature. ". From Wordnik.com. [Andiron Tales] Reference
'Neath a tough pachydermatous casing. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914] Reference
Your husband called me pachydermatous. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
And I never met anyone so pachydermatous. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
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