How To Use Insulting In A Sentence

They drew swords, and fought fiercely, cussing and insulting each other as swiftly as they threw blows.
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.
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.
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
The usual homilies about bagging the best deals and shopping around seem almost insulting. Times, Sunday Times
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.
This insulting decision speaks volumes about the direction sports is headed.
Now she had concocted a plan that would spell doom for Shirley, her revenge for taking her man and insulting her pride.
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
Despite his apology, a religious court convicted him of using insulting language.
Her tone was deliberately insulting.
A kid I used to be friends with turned against me after being told that I'd been insulting him.
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
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
I think that these reasons are down right insulting.
A lie is insulting; an obvious lie is doubly insulting.
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.
But we abhor any insulting or discriminatory behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Dissent is dehumanized, as it is branded with this pejorative title and other insulting labels like xenophobe, nativist, peacenik or anti-American dupe.
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
The magazine is a disgrace to our neighborhood, minorities or not, and is insulting to our intelligence. and the design is terrible.
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
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"
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
When anybody calls their bluff and punctures this self-delusion, they can only cope by insulting and vilifying their critics.
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.
Noncrime hate incidents include offensive or insulting comments. Times, Sunday Times
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.
In 1996, Yeoman's major customer made what she considered an insultingly low offer for her business.
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
Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style.
The boys soon began taunting and insulting each other, in some cases turning against good friends who were now on the opposing team.
He says he ' s used to what he calls insulting remarks. Standout House
It would be insulting to some one of Walker's stature to pretend otherwise.
Avoid insulting or attacking them. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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.
Well, the 52-year-old is of course known for more than just insulting Jews; but since he hasn't acted on screen since M. Night Shyamalan's Signs in 2002 and infamously declared in 2006, "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world" whilst getting arrested for drunk driving, I can't help but have that as my free-associate for the seasoned Aussie. Mel Gibson Acting Again in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net
Their sole purpose in being at the Old Head is to disrupt our business by intimidating, insulting and abusing our guests who come from all over the world.
This is an insulting and ill-founded belief which I would advise you to reconsider.
Further, African American vernacular is * not* only spoken by an urban underclass, and suggesting it is is insulting. Matthew Yglesias » Harry Reid’s WTF Moment
It would be insulting to dedicate a work of fiction, essentially a work of entertainment, to them. WALL GAMES
I hate that you have the ear of 10 percent of the nation when you make your horrible statements showing your fatism… encouraging others in insulting and disrespecting fat people.
Apparently 72% of people have found letters from some organisations so patronising, insulting, confusing and full of jargon that they have cut all ties with them.
I CANNOT BELIEVE obama's people keep attacking clinton, accusing her of being a racist, of being a destructor etc etc. they've got their nomination, they got what they wanted. are they trying to make us vote for mccain?!?!?!? it is UNBELIEVABLE. clinton isnt dividing the democrats. its the obama people insulting clinton, our gal. and in case you hadnt noticed, we dont forget those who mess with the clintons. Senators mull the No. 2 spot
The use of marriage as a wedge issue by this administration is both infuriating and insulting to me.
He was dismissed for publicly insulting prominent politicians.
What she would give to punch him on the nose, and flatten once and for all his insulting, devilish assumptions.
You'd wonder how such an insulting little squirt could amass such a fortune and control the mighty moguls of the motor racing business.
To suggest that it was an alternative to the Queen's Christmas message is frankly insulting to Her Majesty.
He scribbled a callous note insulting the family he robbed. The Sun
Many young men are as obstinate, and as curious in their choice, as tyrannically proud, insulting, deceitful, false-hearted, as irrefragable and peevish on the other side; Narcissus-like, Anatomy of Melancholy
Also a filthy and insulting pasquil, perhaps composed by Paul Crell, in which Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
He was miserable and moody, frustrated and just plain rude, insulting anyone who gave him the slightest reason.
These and similarly insulting fatuities are the language of a politician who detests political generalities, works mostly by innocent intuition and who is celebrated by the masses.
The insulting remarks stung him to a rage.
These people, most of them serious, brainless people with no sense of humour, have to think of an insulting nickname for me.
He will say insulting things because that's kinda been his MO.
One wrote, "The word 'squaw' is racist, offensive, and insulting on so many levels that I can't believe anyone in the 21st century would use it.... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
It should be borne in mind that words or behaviour may be annoying or rude without being necessarily abusive or insulting.
Article 142 The lawyers of both parties shall respect each other in the court trial or negotiation, no one may use sharp-fanged , cynical or insulting languages.
To bill it as a return to form would be a trashing of Allen's back catalogue, but it is a reminder of the glory days: indeed, it's a spruced-up version of a vehicle once intended for Zero Mostel, about a misanthropist scientist who spends his days insulting children and recuperating from suicide attempts. Whatever Works
Offering half the asking price is insulting and a poor way to handle the negotiations for the most talented and major-league ready player in the draft.
I'll settle with you, you have to pay for your insulting.
My problem is with stupid, ignorant and insulting queries like the one posed above.
You can't offer such a low salary to someone who is so highly skilled - it's insulting.
Hmmm. I don't know the real story, I am guesing that is the reason for what you refer to as insulting replies. Latest Articles
Schumer made a show of clasping his hands and accused the officials of being ideologically 'handcuffed' to the far right — which the officials found highly insulting. You Could Bank on It
I don't like the term mediocre man, because it's personal and insulting, and I'm not addressing that part to anyone. Obama, Farrakhan, and how Hillary Clinton took the opening and then squandered it.
Iran (the declared enemy) called the knighthood an "insulting, suspicious and improper act by the British Government in an obvious example of fighting against Islam. Momekh: To Sir, With What?
I beg your pardon but the woman you're insulting happens to be my wife.
It is not acceptable that they give poorly preprepared crassly insulting statements about ''lessons learnt.'' to journalists in the wake of official reports and court cases. Archive 2008-12-01
These and similarly insulting fatuities are the language of a politician who detests political generalities, works mostly by innocent intuition and who is celebrated by the masses.
Gosh-gally….. how insulting to us in the education field. Debate expectations from Obama camp
Children in particular suffer a lot from the deformity, even if the insulting and discriminating term 'harelip' has fortunately almost died out. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
A kid I used to be friends with turned against me after being told that I'd been insulting him.
It's insulting to my morals as a decent human being to have to watch people degrade themselves on television and use sly tactics in order to win money.
A kid I used to be friends with turned against me after being told that I'd been insulting him.
For an instant, he clenched his teeth to that insulting reproof. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
How well does Mr McIntyre know the so-called Third World which he so insultingly disparages?
Thereâ€ ™ s never an excuse for bigotry and namecalling, and certainly those who would use the term towelhead are doing so in an attempt to be insulting, mean-spirited, and contemptuous. FlickFilosopher.com
You must also answer this insultingly easy question.
As i'm writing this i'm also forwarding the article to my representative in german gouvenrment, since phil "linden" is not only insulting people here, but whole countries as well. wrote: Reuters/Second Life » Second Life
An engineer was heard to mutter something insulting. The Times Literary Supplement
In Amsterdam, public notaries regularly recorded women's statements about the insulting maltreatment of their husbands.
I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults. Times, Sunday Times
The treatment accorded to a United Nations official was little short of insulting.
He accuses his wife of whoredom, discounts her denials, and insultingly gives Emilia money as he leaves.
In an obvious and grotesque way, the Hillary nutcracker is insulting, demeaning, and offensive --- offensive in the sense of intending to put women on the defensive. The doll and the nutcracker
But she said claims of a whitewash were insulting and said she came under'no pressure or undue influence '. The Sun
However, after consulting the Oxford English Dictionary, I now believe that "midget" is a pretty insulting term. The vertically challenged pipe up (Jack Bog's Blog)
Square behind the insultingly tie-less lawyer is an open window. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
The article was insulting to the families of British citizens.
So, basically, "Yankee" is a term deemed so insulting that two separate groups who had it applied to them were so revolted that they in turn tagged another group with it. The Clog
It was insulting and again, not befitting someone in my position.
Rather than apologise or back down, Mac grizzled over a Queen's Club ban that he incurred after insulting the chairman's wife on a practice court days after his 1984 win, and opted not play in the championship for six years.
I wonder what sort of business he's involved with, if he doesn't need to worry about insulting women?
He was one of three men arrested by police for indecent behaviour and insulting the head of state during the celebrations.
Even if some of the worse stuff is murkily sourced, McChrystal will have to explain to the White House how it is that he created an atmosphere where people around him felt free to leak info that at best is insulting to the president. In McChrystal article, insults are mostly anonymous, but...
But I and many transwomen have a major problem with peeps ignorantly calling cisgender women 'trannies' to be insulting. Archive 2009-03-01
How well does Mr McIntyre know the so-called Third World which he so insultingly disparages?
It seems to me rather insulting to them to suggest that they need constant surveillance to do their jobs like decent human beings. Times, Sunday Times
Equally insulting, decided the Times of London, was Michelle Obama's "solipsistic" and Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com
To suggest that critical gender studies is correcting an imbalance in favour of women is either shockingly ignorant or detestably insulting. Women’s studies vs critical gender studies « Love | Peace | Ohana
Further, your attempt at being either insulting or sarcastic is duly noted, and not at all impressive. Think Progress » “Get it out.”
His buckboard was a rattletrap, old, insulting challenge to every little stone in the road; but there was nothing the matter with the horses or their harness. The Killer
Why, because at times, an egotist sense of self is so diminished and endemic, its false survival unknowingly depends on thrashing, belittling and insulting others to maintain a continuous sick illusionary story in their head necessary to misleadingly feed and encourage a diminished sense of self. Page 2
I find it insulting that our elected councillors are prepared to waste both their time and ours on such frivolous and pointless schemes.
If it makes you feel good to write an insulting letter, go ahead.
Try having people insulting you every single day, and tell me how long you can last?
I thought this rather sweet, but highly insulting to her memory.
For the kestrel is a most insulting creature towards the bigger birds. Afoot in England
I then given an example, which Kevin imprecisely describes as “a dumb email [Bernstein] received that used the term both incorrectly and insultingly.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Likudnik, Part II:
How about insulting and unfounded accusations posted after a teacher has had to discipline a pupil for misbehaviour? Times, Sunday Times
an impudent boy given to insulting strangers
Rather insultingly he left housekeeping money for me and my sister - with the strict instruction that I wasn't allowed anywhere near it.
I'm venturing a guess that most of those people would swap that for having insulting signs written on their bodies any day.
As a statement of defiance, it was more effective than insulting a head of state.
Madame de Staël -- which can even "seem to be" those of "pillars"; and it may appear fantastic and almost insulting to mention one, who in long stretches of his work might almost be called a mere muckheap-raker, in company with them. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
His statement about building livestock barns in swampy areas is particularly insulting.
The next day, three of them were arrested for public indecency and insulting behaviour. READY, STEADY, GO!: Swinging London and the Invention of Cool
He somehow thinks his case is enhanced by insulting the Ohio law enforcement system.
They began to shout at the students in Chinese, particularly insulting one of the girls in the group.
While insulting them, she is telling about her pursuit of her 18-year-old son, Chester, who has ripped her off and gone for a luxury weekend in Rio with two bimbos.
This article was insulting to all men and women who have excruciating pain and severe loss of quality of life from osteoporosis.
There's also Transformers, which will either be a lovable technophilic action flick or another insulting attempt to make a few million bucks. Archive 2007-02-01
Equally insulting, decided the Times of London, was Michelle Obama's "solipsistic" and "inherently dismissive" gifts to the Browns 'two little boys, Fraser and John. Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com
Effigies of hated opponents were burned at the stake, insulting posters were pasted on walls and there were daily processions and tableaux.
There are many public sites of discussion in which people don't conduct themselves in the same - uncivil, exacerbating, insulting, abusive etc. - ways as are common in the blogosphere.
For an instant, he clenched his teeth to that insulting reproof. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Now these representations had been portrayed insultingly by the Prussians in the famous Ems telegram. ANTI-ICE
The automated acronym expander ( "The Bile Machine") generates random, insulting things that any 2-7 letter word can stand for. Boing Boing: November 11, 2001 - November 17, 2001 Archives
It was, in the end, vaguely insulting - the adult equivalent of getting picked last for kickball.
Tracey, Stephen, Timothy and Kevin landed in the bottom, and although Stephen's bacon-wrapped Chilean seabass effort was universally panned (Waxman called it "inedible") and horribly executed, Tracey went home for her over-fenneled, sloppy, poorly-cooked italian sausage 'sliders' that Jonathan Waxman claimed his son could make, and that Colicchio said would be insulting to Italians, and therefore himself. Top Chef DC Finale: Who Will Be Named Top Chef?
As a result, a number of parties have placed emphasis on name-calling and insulting opponents.
For more amusingness readthe behind-the-scenes report and somecomments from people who think ImprovEverywhere are insulting what the Ghostbusters stand for. 2010 June « Items of Interest
But beware of insulting the mess of pottage, which is as respectable as when newly out of the pot. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852
The argument that the proposal is an anti-homeless/anti-poor measure is both in contradiction to the evident facts and extremely insulting. DSA: Panhandling Proposal Isn’t Rich vs. Poor « PubliCola
Last time the carabineros came, on July 28, 2004, Jorge tried to defend me when they started insulting me.
I don’t know why you feel that being insulting and sarcastic is productive. Why I Am Not a Poet-Mom : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, judge of the Shari'ah Court of the UK said The fatwa is to express the Islamic point of view that those who are insulting to Allah and the messengers of God, they must understand it is a crime. February 2008
He described Gueret's views as a "full-frontal, hypocritical, misinformed and gratuitously insulting attack".
Oh and show me just how mature you all are by calling me more names, filthier ones please, the last spate of sophomoric abuse was too lame to even consider insulting. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
Though we have profound differences, he is saying, we have to reason about them civilly instead of dismissing, insulting, and demonizing one another.
So how about if you just keep being you: a religious zealot in policymaker's clothing, and I'll keep being the anti-you: a rational individual who finds a majority of fundamentalist methodologies to be obsolete and insulting to my intelligence. Edward Murray: Apparently, I'm Christine O'Donnell
Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declareth all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate. Richard Geldard: In This Other America
British officials strongly advised against the move, warning that it could be seen as provocative or even insulting.
For example, the sentence "John called Mary a Republican and then SHE insulted HIM" [5] is a wellformed sentence only on the assumption that the participants regard it as insulting to be called a Republican. A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics
This alone is insulting to anyone who's lived both in Montreal proper and in a suburb.
So one day when my grandfather came in and began insulting my grandmother, my father went off on him.
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean defended U.S. Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday, dismissing as "bloopers" remarks Kerry made that were construed by some to be insulting to American troops. Sound Politics: The gift that keeps on giving
The law was “an insulting attempt to put the laborer under a legislative tutelage, which is not only degrading to his manhood, but subversive of his rights as a citizen of the United States.” A History of American Law
BLITZER: The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is taking some fire from Republicans for what they call insulting comments he made about two top U.S. military leaders. CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007
I have heard the shouted threats and demands and have witnessed some of the insulting, demeaning ways staff are treated.
It is equally insulting to suggest that the people who work in them are any less committed to privacy and free speech than anybody else. Times, Sunday Times
Republican leaders on Wednesday accused Jim Messina, campaign manager for President Barack Obama, of repeating what they characterized as insulting and insensitive jokes about the Latino community, after he quoted the last sentence of a column by Washington Post's Dana Millbank on a tweet. Pilar Marrero: Republicans and Democrats Argue Over "Chimichangas"
You can't offer such a low salary to someone who is so highly skilled - it's insulting.
On a walkabout in Brent East, he accused Mr Blair of insulting the intelligence of electors by warning that voting Lib Dem would produce a Tory government.
He further pleaded to using threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour and with being intoxicated on the same date.
I personally think the practice is insulting and humiliating, especially in a business setting.
Soon the other boys got the idea and insulting words were soon inscribed on the walls.
The plot of the film isn't just generic, it's insultingly stupid.
For the past ten minutes of lunch, he'd been indiscriminately bashing anything worth insulting, and he'd made even the more conservative among us laugh.
Why, the S/R even has an amateur "humor" columnist named Doug Clark (a kind of pudgy Dave Barry wannabe who lacks only the intelligence and wit to vault him to stardom in Boise or Elko) who was classy enough to write yet another insulting attack on West just last week, following Frontline's expose of the S/R's reprehensible smear campaign against West. Sound Politics: Vote for America's worst newspaper
This was a misinformed and gratuitously insulting attack.
It added:'Our members have the right to do their job in an environment free of unjustified and insulting attacks. Times, Sunday Times
The old canard that lack of religion leads directly to nihilism is as cheap and insulting as my remarks above. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR
The temptation to mollycoddle people who are unable to deal with insulting challenges to themselves or their beliefs is very strong.
Badr's departure followed a sustained campaign by the opposition for his dismissal for publicly insulting prominent intellectuals and politicians.
His words are destructive and made even more insulting because he does not even realise the effect they have.
If viewers could rate adverts they like, perhaps the insulting ones would quickly get weeded out.
They looked incongruously, almost insultingly, festive as they bounced against each other in the breeze. RESCUING ROSE
Talk about wanting to annihilate opponents never wins friends and making insulting gestures at beaten teams will soon remove any lingering goodwill that the team enjoy.
I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults. Times, Sunday Times
Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned -- who should instead be known as 'free-living,' the academics, including an Oxford professor, suggest. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Diana also believed her salary to be virtually insulting.
In my opinion Peter is a good and consistant Lib Dem blogger - and I find the descriptive adjective 'Lib Dem' to be far more insulting than 'speccy', and than the derivative of 'tosser' for that matter! What place for Sharia Law.
She is furious and really rather insulting. Times, Sunday Times
But his insulting treatment of a key ally shows him to be irresponsible, graceless and obsessively bent on winning office at all costs.
The outpouring of emotions and media coverage are insulting to those who endure this condition without such hysteria. Times, Sunday Times
Some of us have grown tired of the insulting “Essex jokes”, generally aimed at women, which have no place in civilised society and certainly not in the national newspaper of a political party which professes to deplore discrimination and derogatory comments. Essex girls look to Bob Russell to defend their honour
Smith then started ranting and raving and making insulting remarks about Mrs Pickup's son.
Becoming a Google rubbernecker -- gawking at someone's life from afar and finding something insulting or embarrassing there -- reminds me of the prank of pasting a "Kick Me Hard" sign on an unwitting victim's back. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: In a Google World, Do You Have the 'Right to Be Forgotten'?
He was abusive and insulting to a policeman and as he was placed in a police vehicle, he kicked one officer in the chest.
Ferrell2010, why the heck are you insulting one of the funniest people in showbiz ever by naming yourself after them? Think Progress » At Beck event, Perry says anti-Obama conservatives are an ‘army’ that can ‘take their country back.’
Lazio's stonewalling is even more insulting when you consider that he promised to make his tax returns public!" said Charlie King, the executive director of the state Democratic Party, in a June statement. Playing Chicken on Tax Returns
But at least with letters you have time to cool off or sober up before you send an insulting missive winging through the ether.
It keeps the player from wandering aimlessly, which is good, but the puzzles are so straightforward as to be almost occasionally insulting. PopMatters
Two men were arrested for insulting behaviour after the flowers were set alight. The Sun
It is the first time in years that someone has been taken to court and penalised for insulting the monarch.
You can't offer such a low salary to someone who is so highly skilled - it's insulting.
The company's cultural gatekeeping offends many people who see it as insulting and threatening to their choice of available entertainment.
The use of the word goyim as Trumpeldor used it is in no way derogatory or insulting. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

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