Results for pachydermatous

Definitions of pachydermatous:

part of speech: adjective

Thick- skinned.

part of speech: adjective

Relating to a pachyderm, or of the order of pachyderms.

Usage examples for pachydermatous:

• The impossibility of piercing the Christian pharisee holding the traditions of the elders, in any vital part- so pachydermatous is he to any spiritual argument- is a sore trial to the old Adam still unslain in lovers of the truth. "Donal Grant", George MacDonald

• So far as Mr. Swinton was concerned, he was comfortably wrapped up in a pachydermatous hide of self- appreciation, so that he thought nothing about me one way or the other except as a guest of his patrons, and one therefore to whom he was bound to be civil. "The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance", Marie Corelli

• Strange how all German curses come home to roost, and move us to the ridicule that hurts the Hun so much and so surely penetrates his pachydermatous hide. "Sketches of the East Africa Campaign", Robert Valentine Dolbey