How To Use Insult In A Sentence

  • They drew swords, and fought fiercely, cussing and insulting each other as swiftly as they threw blows.
  • Ignorance of Sarah Palin offends anyone who is educated, it's an insult to the intellectual world, american intelligence. Palin plans 'aggressive' fundraising push
  • Many of us are highly educated and your presumptions are most insulting.
  • Individuals should not be allowed to run amok insulting and using abusive language against one another.
  • King was eight years old when he was slapped by a white woman in a downtown Atlanta department store and insulted with a racial slur.
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  • Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
  • Public Prosecutor told the court that the offences of threatening and insulting a woman's modesty are bailable, so there is no need to grant anticipatory bail.
  • Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you ; music cannotpunish ---- only bless. 
  • After a long, tedious sail, during which I was subjected to every discomfort, and exposure to the weather, as well as jeers and insults that effervesced from a corrupt heart, where they had been concealed for so many years, we reached a spot near enough to the land to discover a cluster of orange trees and a cabin. Bond and Free: A Tale of the South
  • She nearly gasped out loud at this insult.
  • You cannot on one hand tell foks how good gayness is then in the same breath use gayness as an insult andhave any crediblity. Think Progress » Religious Right Seeks Unprecedented Constitutional Convention To Ban Gay Marriage Without Congress
  • We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
  • The latest crisis in West Indies cricket and the unceremonious sacking of the best WI talent is the ultimate insult to West Indians.
  • The flag waving was decorous, the cheering polite and the umpire was never once insulted.
  • A kid I used to be friends with turned against me after being told that I'd been insulting him.
  • it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting
  • This was an insult in which every gownsman felt himself involved. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
  • Bush 43 was on the receiving end of eight years of lies, insults, and verbal excoriation delivered by the MSM. President Obama concedes loss of House in 2010. | RedState
  • These patients are therefore particularly susceptible to environmental insults. The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food
  • But I accept that even when the charge is enticement, the enticed party, like the insulted shikseh, is free to get up and walk into another room. Kalooki Nights
  • The usual homilies about bagging the best deals and shopping around seem almost insulting. Times, Sunday Times
  • And our soldiers are degraded and insulted on their own soil.
  • In short, these kind of hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune, who may be considered as thus playing tricks with us, and wantonly diverting herself at our expense. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • Those who invoke it are signalling an equivocal stance on slavery, at best, and thus are insulting all black people.
  • When I attempt to engage in debate about their views they become loud and insulting.
  • But the overall effect of the poem is one of denial, fabricated intimacy and an insulting treatment of a situation that in our culture has already been spiritualized and depersonalized to death.
  • The insult to one of the most senior members of the House, a Vietnam veteran, was a violation of the body's customary decorum as well as its rules, which bar members from directly addressing each other.
  • So I know there's been threads regarding creepy men and I can see why a guy might feel insulted or take the term creepy offensively. Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
  • The way pupils use sexually abusive language to insult each other presents particular problems for teachers.
  • Rick Warren is an insult not only to the gay community but also to women and to most people who favor mentation. Gay Activists Decry Pastor’s Role in Swearing-In - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • I thought we were playing hardball,’ Ruth drawls and Faulkner frowns, appearing to be gravely insulted.
  • This insulting decision speaks volumes about the direction sports is headed.
  • BILL SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, Carol, it was the gaffe of the week and maybe the campaign when John Kerry made what he called a blundered joke about President Bush, which came out as an insult to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2006
  • Who shall praise or honour princes who insult and calumniate each other? The Talisman
  • These complaints were not the normal tirade of abuse and insults we receive but seemed genuine.
  • She had hurt his feelings by saying she wished she didn't have to live with him, and she had insulted his dear, dear, _dear_ picture! The Iron Woman
  • Lord Glenvarloch as they left him, “You shall dearly abye this insult — we will meet again.” The Fortunes of Nigel
  • Well the nation has had to put up with weeks of its intelligence being insulted by those who claimed we were wrong to act.
  • Now she had concocted a plan that would spell doom for Shirley, her revenge for taking her man and insulting her pride.
  • Get your dumb "redkneck" ass off of the site you idiot non thinking retard, Oh! sorry that would be an insult to retards, you sub-human freak. (i only used the term retard for affect, i do not or cannott have ignorant positions like you, so let me be clear about that). Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • The arch tastemaker meant it as a compliment, but barbed remarks and outright insults have dogged her throughout her career.
  • It is pretty clear that they were to some extent under the influence of pique and irritation when they noticed his deviations from the established faith, and applied to him the epithet of "babbler;" but Paul was not the man to be put down either by irony or insult; and at length it was found necessary to allow him a fair opportunity of explaining his principles. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
  • Inmates at Buckley Hall Prison have to run a gauntlet of insults and racism from some members of staff.
  • Cities have their own, distinctly unharmonious giving league, which recently featured an exchange of insults between rival bidders for the Olympics.
  • The ones who were subjected to insults and humiliations hung their heads down in shame.
  • Your piece last month on sporting insults was missing a memorable sledge from an Australia v Zimbabwe cricket match.
  • I either just insulted KISS or whatshisface playing the part (or both). EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - A great new Joker shot
  • That inability to distinguish between free enquiry and deliberate insult reminds me of those who wielded the blasphemy laws which were used to persecute freethinkers and rationalists in the middle ages.
  • Whereas in times when there was some order and government the travellers might be safe in the open roads, and the robbers were forced to lurk in the by-ways, no, on the contrary, the robbers insulted on the open roads without check, and the honest travellers were obliged to sculk and walk through by-ways, in continual frights. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
  • But the whiff of being a "carpetbagger" - an insulting term for candidates with no local connections who are parachuted into winnable seats - persists. BBC News - Home
  • To add insult to injury , the penalty was awarded to the other side.
  • The king is unlikely to forgive the insult offered to his ambassador.
  • She slapped his side with the flat of her blade, calmly adding injury to insult before walking away.
  • The yatras have in the past sparked clashes in Ahmedabad as Hindu devotees - armed with swords, tridents and spears - hurled anti-Muslim insults from atop chariots and trucks.
  • Despite his apology, a religious court convicted him of using insulting language.
  • They hurl insults, shaking their heads. Christianity Today
  • Her tone was deliberately insulting.
  • Some of the sadhus were distinctly scary - like the Aghoris with their bells and boar tusks and magic mantras, who insulted their amused but decorous Nepalese audience.
  • The steelworkers' leader rejected the 2% pay-rise saying it was an insult to the profession.
  • In his incommunicable world of silence, made the more sordid by isolation and discrimination, he find himself the butt of everybody's abuse and insult.
  • A kid I used to be friends with turned against me after being told that I'd been insulting him.
  • Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence. Toba Beta 
  • The actors insulted the hosts who had prearranged scripts with brilliant replies.
  • What would the advertising johnnies say about that insult to the Herald's core demographic?
  • When villagers tried to put the cones back, they were insulted by some motorists.
  • Against police guidance, some individuals forced the security cordon in an anarchical way, insulting passers-by and police officers and saying they wanted to the head to the palace," the police said in a statement quoted by Angolan state news agency Angop. Several injured in Angola anti-government rally: report
  • It is human nature that if you are insulted by someone, you will retort the insult.
  • The project ' s high-profile architect — Tom Kundig of Seattle firm Olson Kundig, known for his steel, concrete and glass homes that expose the guts of their construction — says he ' s used to what he calls insulting remarks. Contrarians Pour On the Concrete
  • It's my own duty to expose Caz for the flimsy lies and unfounded insults she slaps up here on a weekly basis.
  • I think that these reasons are down right insulting.
  • The late African-American poet Langston Hughes said the word 'sums up for us who are colored all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America.'
  • ‘I'd call you an idiot, but it would be an insult to stupid people,’ Lon retorted with an impudent grin.
  • For those who feel insulted by it there is no justifiable reason for it to continue to be exhibited.
  • A lie is insulting; an obvious lie is doubly insulting.
  • But it was the Libyans themselves, young Libyans who were mocked and insulted for their so-called indiscipline, it was they who took Tripoli last night ... Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • And to add insult to injury, when he complains about it he succeeds only in calling attention to his own chronic sickliness. Japan's Basel Blowback
  • She told me that many black students experience unintended racial insults (sociologists call this "microaggression"), and that racist expression, intended or not, often gets a pass.
  • Occasionally she even demonstrates some viperish spirit, as when she traded insults with another model.
  • I also noted that the interviewer baldly misstated various facts, apparently to get a rise out of Blair, as well as taking a really insulting tone.
  • Refusing to partake of offered food or drink is considered a grave insult.
  • No-one, I think, needs reminding that phot-ops are a waste of time and a general insult to the intelligence of anyone even contemplating the idea of using their franchise; nor do most people need reminding that so-called "public meetings" are frequently no such thing at all, being instead opportunities for party members to demonstrate that they're not much more than an ugly bunch of performing seals. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
  • But we abhor any insulting or discriminatory behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's impossible for him to live down the insult given by his political opponent.
  • No matter what you call the mentally deficient, that term will come to be an insult when applied to people of ordinary intellectual capacity, and not long after it will be seen as an insult to the true idiots, imbeciles, and so forth.
  • Pity the insult thingy is damn funny in pointless childish way Compose Your Own Insult For Gordon Brown
  • Although accusing someone of working in Starbucks might be taken as an insult in the US, in Italy where the word barista originates it denotes a bartender, which of course is a noble and ancient profession. My First 'Hate' Email: A 'Chiropractic Doctor' Writes
  • The conduct that has come to light is an insult to the people, and an affront to the most basic standards of morality and decency.
  • To add insult to injury, it is legal wrangling over the controversial Spanish home that is stopping stalling a settlement. The Sun
  • Accused of being ‘unprincipled’ by an editor, he replied: ‘I have never toadied, nor lied, nor insulted.’
  • He insulted that woman by language.
  • Maoris claimed putting a road through a taniwha's home would have been a major insult to all those who believed in the beast.
  • Dissent is dehumanized, as it is branded with this pejorative title and other insulting labels like xenophobe, nativist, peacenik or anti-American dupe.
  • Fuckhead, calling someone a dimwitted fossil is an insult, you ignorant pustule. Matthew Yglesias » A Telling Slip on Detainees
  • He insulted me and accused me of being proud and bigheaded.
  • I saw black people who made up about half that society in my home town go from being referred to in racially insulting terms to "colored folk" and boys and girls and happy folk who loved to sing and dance and I will tell you that the most harmless seeming term used as exclusionary is poison to the human spirit. GRINGOS AND GRINGAS....what's in an appelation?
  • At Honolulu these annexationists made speeches abusing the Senate of the United States for the delay in annexing Hawaii; they further said the most grossly insulting things of President Cleveland because he frustrated their plans, and included Secretary Gresham in their condemnation because he failed to recognize them as Americans. Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen
  • An insult to put him on the standby list? Times, Sunday Times
  • One saving thought alone presented itself — this might be a trial, an experiment of the philosopher Agelastes, or of the Emperor his master, for the purpose of proving the courage of which the Christians vaunted so highly, and punishing the thoughtless insult which the Count had been misadvised enough to put upon the Emperor the preceding day. Count Robert of Paris
  • With his gosh-darned, aw-shucks demeanor and disarming smile, he is able to insult entire ethnic groups without even realizing he's doing it.
  • It was a rejoinder to an industry that had branded him an English theatre person, and ‘a Parsi, which was like a big insult to me‘.
  • Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. Walt Whitman 
  • Englishmen when I say that to insult and abuse a man for adopting another faith, however opposed to our own, and even ridiculous in itself, is an odious method in controversy, and for myself I see little to choose between a proselyte of the gate, a renegade Mason, and a demitted Roman Catholic. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
  • I felt most insulted when they made me sit at a little table at the back.
  • Some of these melodies and harmonies are so huge it's an insult to call them ear worms. The Sun
  • Scholars of great mystical movements and figures often go out of their way to explain that their subjects merit the term panentheism rather than pantheism, as if the second label is an insult. Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum
  • As I did so the funeral bell rang out, and it came to me, as though the One above had spoken, that peace would be slain and His name insulted by all of you -- by all of you, Catholic and Protestant. The World for Sale, Volume 2.
  • The two men continued to exchange genial insults for the next four decades. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many patients with epilepsy have a history of exposure to a prenatal insult, so we reasoned that prenatal exposure to alcohol could be such an epileptogenic insult," added Peter Carlen, a neurologist and senior scientist for the division of fundamental neurobiology at the Toronto Western Hospital, another of the study's authors. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Provoking a reaction through insults is discourteous. The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo?
  • Last September, white students at Elsinore High School in Riverside County confronted Latino students with racial insults and flags bearing iron crosses and swastikas.
  • As she said this, she glared at John-Paul, as if her remarks were an insult.
  • However, a Workers Online search of industrial insults painted the manager's effort as both unoriginal and lame.
  • The most pejorative of hockey insults - "gutless" - has already been uttered by Versus analyst Jeremy Roenick, deplored by cooler heads and eventually rendered inexact by its target: The San Jose Sharks' Patrick Marleau, after all, scored the goal that eliminated the Detroit Red Wings from the playoffs Thursday night. The Seattle Times
  • The army—intensely conservative though its military ideas might be—also regarded itself as the repository of the pride of the Prussian people, and the insults heaped upon the head of their monarch did not go unnoticed or unresented. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
  • The studio audience is encouraged to boo and hiss at these insults. Times, Sunday Times
  • In one place, His Eminence speaks of the way in which the term "preconciliar" has been used as an insult "as if an abyss should be created between the "before" and the "after" the Council" and then says:Today, thanks to the Motu Proprio, this situation is changing notably. Archive 2009-05-01
  • His insults are an outrageous slur on our brilliant nurses. The Sun
  • It is tempting to refuse to answer those who have nothing to contribute but rude remarks, insults, and attempts to accuse others of things never said.
  • The magazine is a disgrace to our neighborhood, minorities or not, and is insulting to our intelligence. and the design is terrible.
  • She not only insulted me when I served her a drink, but she scared me halfway out of my mind.
  • The smug buzzword "glamping" merely adds insult to injury. Glamping is not camping
  • It is an insult to the primary producers of this region to be snubbed by any Minister, let alone one who supposedly represents their industry.
  • To add insult to injury, some fund groups that have lost scads of money for investors are sticking them with extra charges - because the value of their accounts has sunk below the minimum investment.
  • Update: Paul sez, "Old Norse and Old English poetry (written down in the 13th and 8th-11th centuries respectively, but often of earlier oral origins) know the tradition of" flyting, "insulting speech esp. before battle. Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives
  • He insulted me and accused me of being proud and big-headed.
  • Lies, insults and rumours, which are unleashed at campaign meetings by various political parties have only served to keep some would-be voters away from inking their names to the register.
  • On hearing from the alcaide the cause of the affray, he acted with becoming dignity, ordering the guards from the room and directing that the renegade should be severely punished for daring to infringe the hospitality of the palace and insult an embassador. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
  • And if they are insulted or substituted during a game they will not react to the crowd or throw their shirt to the ground in disgust. Times, Sunday Times
  • Patriotism, hounded on by Prussian Terror, by Preternatural Suspicion, roars tumultuous round the Salle de Manege, all day; insults many leading Deputies, of the absolvent Right-side; nay chases them, collars them with loud menace: Deputy Vaublanc, and others of the like, are glad to take refuge in Guardhouses, and escape by the back window. The French Revolution
  • I've always wondered how she would expect to win in the general election after treating her own supporters that way, insulting as 'insignificant' any state in which she subsequently lost, never bothering to publicly thank those who worked for her in those states (tho she flew to Florida to thank * those* supporters), and - apparently - leaving bad debts in her wake. Hillary: "Shame On You, Barack Obama"
  • He insulted her by calling her a stupid fool.
  • Don't take it as an insult if I go to sleep during your speech; I'm very tired.
  • If a compliment did get thrown your way, you either accepted it silently or downplayed it until it sounded more like an insult.
  • Not long ago, I took a political blogger named billmon to task for insulting conservative bloggers he didn't like by using the word 'homoerotic' to describe their apparent fixation with America's heroic soldiery. Friday Night Open Thread: Comics
  • By 1912 the term pomegranate, or Pommy Grant (especially relevant to the ruddy-faced English migrants) had taken its place alongside Jimmy Grant as insults for newcomers or new chums.
  • Not but that when the duc de Crequi, the French ambassador, was insulted at Rome in the year 1662, the parliament of Provence passed an arret, declaring the city of Avignon, and the county Venaiss in part of the ancient domain of Provence; and therefore reunited it to the crown of France, which accordingly took possession; though it was afterwards restored to the Roman see at the peace of Pisa. Travels through France and Italy
  • Paches grinned, again humorless, and Phrynus felt the insult. The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber
  • His claim to have been an Army photographer is also beginning to sound bogus; his photographs, to put it mildly, really stink, and are an insult to military photographers everywhere. Heroes or Villains?
  • Surely marriage and prostitution are separate and it insults marriage to infer that they thrive on one another?
  • It also clearly illuminates where the line is, and why calling a miserly person a "Jew" is an insult (because the insinuation of miserliness is derogatory) whereas saying Asians like rice is not (because there's no derogatory insinuation). "We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."
  • When anybody calls their bluff and punctures this self-delusion, they can only cope by insulting and vilifying their critics.
  • To real Buddhists or Taoists or exponents of qigong, the Falungong is a joke, if not an insult.
  • Being insulted by your interviewee I am thinking of compiling a small book of insults from my years of interviewing the famous. Times, Sunday Times
  • We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
  • I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was miserable and moody, frustrated and just plain rude, insulting anyone who gave him the slightest reason.
  • Sarkozy was insulted by a member of the crowd, and with the cameras still rolling muttered, "Casse-toi, pauvre con" -- which basically translates as buzz off, jackass. Elizabeth Bard: Paris Notebook: A Day at the Salon d'Agriculture
  • Makutu was resorted to often for the purpose of avenging some insult, or to punish a thief or other evildoer.
  • These mis-delivered letters are put back into the postbox, with an arrow indicating the correct place, and I can only hope that the post office does not add insult to injury by trying to collect excess postage.
  • How dare HE, publisher of drivel, insult MY work!
  • The word dogs is a strong insult in the Mediterranean world since dogs are generally regarded as scavengers.
  • Noncrime hate incidents include offensive or insulting comments. Times, Sunday Times
  • In personal disagreements, for instance -- they never "squabbled" -- the final insult was to say, "My dear, you're as silly as a something-or - other Radical Govunment," for there was no answer to this anywhere in the world. The Extra Day
  • Adding insult to Dunfermline's injured pride was Scott McLean who nabbed a late fourth for Partick who must have wished this game would never end.
  • Insults so ferocious as the recipe for Sussex Layer Pancakes - why pick on Sussex?
  • Woman is less changeable, but to call her capricious is a stupid insult. A Prince of Bohemia
  • Not content with having upset my parents, he then insulted my sister!
  • As the march swung past Number 10 there was a cacophony of whistles, boos, jeers and insults.
  • The committee, in its report, found the letter to be insulting but it did not constitute a breach of parliamentary privilege or contempt of Parliament.
  • They insult 1 minute ago 1:41 PM Notice the word "shelter". The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • In 1996, Yeoman's major customer made what she considered an insultingly low offer for her business.
  • Archon Beed Thane of Vergill was particularly opposed, and theatrically insulted Leia Organa Solo in order to provoke an honor duel from Isolder.
  • Liu posted his letter to Brown on his campaign (for City Comptroller) website: "It's outrageous and insulting for you to suggest it would 'behoove' us to adopt another name, to give up our birthright and a part of our own identity, in order to exercise our right to vote" and suggest she resign if she doesn't apologize. Gothamist
  • To add insult to injury, he goes on to burlesque one of the iconic phrases of devolution: ‘I do not favour a Scottish solution.’
  • He has compared a prominent opponent of the switch to a local 'avaava' fish -- a sea creature that swims in shallow waters and eats garbage, an insult in Samoan culture.
  • Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style.
  • The campaigners remain undaunted by the warnings, insults and threats. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is the crowning insult to a lifetime of perceived slights and insults, which exist nowhere but in his head.
  • The pillory was a set of stocks that imprisoned head and arms and was used to humiliate petty offenders, who would be insulted and perhaps pelted with mud by passers-by.
  • De Comania autem insultum facient in terras superius annotatas. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • A child with coprolalia may blurt out insults, racial slurs or obscenities.
  • She felt insulted by the low offer.
  • Please don't insult us by sending a carnivore to tell us that vegetarian meals can be tasty.
  • They overturned tables and threw chairs around, smashed glassware, and threatened and insulted employees.
  • The boys soon began taunting and insulting each other, in some cases turning against good friends who were now on the opposing team.
  • They remained centres of the devotion of their flocks, and the "curates," hastily gathered, who took their places, were stigmatised as ignorant and profligate, while, as they were resisted, rabbled, and daily insulted, the country was full of disorder. A Short History of Scotland
  • But being openly ambitious was considered unfeminine, and to be called unfeminine was the worst insult. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • You had to be fun, insult him a bit. Times, Sunday Times
  • He says he ' s used to what he calls insulting remarks. Standout House
  • Prosecutors allege that after a row in which insults were exchanged, Collins returned to his house in All Saints Street and returned with a knife in each hand.
  • The United player kept his counsel, winning back public opinion with his stoicism in the face of the insults.
  • It can only be an insult if it's something utterly filthy which the guest is wanting to get rid of. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
  • Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
  • If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic chicanery.
  • Yes, there she was, beribboned and frilled, a grave look on her face as she ate while around her grown men traded subtle insults and subtler hints, and the women gossiped, gossip with as many messages hidden in it as any man's talk.
  • His life and death has nothing to do with any war anywhere and his attempting to link Michaels death to our soldiers is an insult to them and all veterans. Rep. King on Jackson: 'There's nothing good about this guy'
  • While you could argue whether or not "shvartze" is a perjorative, I think the insult is in the intent. Political Animal
  • I think comparing the stuff to trucker hats is an insult to trucker hats. Ed Hardy gearheads get the funnyordie treatment | EW.com
  • He used the word apothecary instead of doctor on purpose, and, as he explained afterwards, used it “to insult him.” The Brothers Karamazov
  • We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them , but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly.
  • It would be insulting to some one of Walker's stature to pretend otherwise.
  • Cornelio - I have to laugh because the name "Cornelio" sounds uncannily like the Italian word "cornuto," which is now a general term of insult but which originally meant Ontario Blogs Feed
  • He on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath dined, —which, as I say, to vex her, I will execute in the clothes that she so praised, —to the court I’ll knock her back, foot her home again. Act III. Scene V. Cymbeline
  • He defended his beliefs with vigour, but in the end was overwhelmed by the flood of insult and calumny to which he was subjected.
  • Avoid insulting or attacking them. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
  • So it is that jokes that might once have been accepted as bad-taste gags can now be denounced as intolerable racial insults.
  • And she said insult was added to injury when the company tried to make amends by sending her a single one-way travel voucher without a return ticket.
  • Sexist language is insulting to women.
  • Gifts that imply enough vague acquaintance without being openly insulting must be sought out. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's a reply-paid card on the booklet - but with an insultingly minute space for comment.

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