Word Finder - insulting

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To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).

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To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.

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To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).

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To leap or trample upon.

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The act of giving insult.

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Containing insult, or having the intention of insulting.

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He received an insulting letter.

The inference was insulting.

How could she tell him without being insulting?

This deputation led to the recall of Narses in 567, accompanied, according to a somewhat late tradition, by an insulting message from the empress Sophia, who sent him a golden distaff, and bade him, as he was not a man, go and spin wool in the apartments of the women.

Please note that this term is not insulting - we all have an idiolect.

Try and keep on topic if you can and no insulting the contributors.

Notwithstanding his insulting language concerning Mary and the fact that he was the "stoutest" in refusing mass, he became one of her chief advisers, but his complete ascendancy over her mind and affections dates from the murder of Rizzio on the 9th of March 1566.

Seized with a longing to pursue and kill the Moor on account of his insulting language, Ignatius, still doubting as to his best course, left the matter to his mule, which at the dividing of the ways took the path to the abbey, leaving the open road which the Moor had taken.

Sir Robert Peel's party, catching at this hint, threw themselves into a frantic state of excitement, and when Cobden attempted to explain that he meant official, not personal responsibility, they drowned his voice with clamorous and insulting shouts.

However, you go far beyond questioning imo, you 're very insulting and vindictive for no apparent good reason.

Examples include threats, name-calling, gossiping, insulting the victim's family or turning friends against her.

Avoid insulting either the bride or groom, even if the joke is an inside or long-running one.

Insulting your loved one or using tough love is not beneficial at this time because it will only make him or her defensive and resist your requests.

She spoke on camera with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, and felt O'Reilly's comments were actually insulting to the women who have raised families on their own, not always by choice.

A wife can give her husband a gift that is quite funny from her, but insulting from someone else.

The narrator of the game will also chime in many times to tell some details of the Bard's story and make smart and insulting remarks about him throughout the game.

At this point, the audio is just insulting.

Clues are so obvious that it is kind of insulting.

People with Tourette syndrome are more likely to exhibit non-obscene, socially inappropriate behaviors such as expressing insulting or socially unacceptable comments or performing socially unacceptable actions.

In the United States and Europe, even the use of the word homosexual can be seen as insulting.

Although a facial cleft was once referred to as a harelip to reflect its similarity to the mouth of a rabbit, the term is considered insulting today.

Their surf gear is girly without ever being insulting, providing just a hint of pink while you outshine all of the guys on that next wave.

For the partner in that encounter, the addict's easy dismissal of any emotional ties can be insulting and upsetting.

Avoid backhanded compliments - Some books and dating gurus advise that insulting a woman is actually a way to gain her affection.

In fact, some "seduction experts" recommend this for adults, encouraging men say to something mildly insulting to the woman of their desire.

If a promise ring may be seen as insulting or belittling, the couple may want to consider a very long engagement while they prepare for a life together, instead of making a lesser commitment.

Funny doesn't mean ridiculing or insulting either.

Humor is often misinterpreted and frequently perceived as insulting.

However, be careful not to cross the line between a little sassy attitude and downright insulting.

Some teams - even some team captains - substitute the idea of "we're the best!" (a common theme) for "you're the worst!" and let the chants become insulting to the other team.

Ann Wilson states that the song was written in anger after a man approached her at a backstage meet-and-greet and made denigrating, low ball statements that were insulting to women.

On the Ur So Gay controversy, Perry has justified her lyrics saying that the song was about an ex-boyfriend she believed to be gay and was not intended to be insulting to anyone.

This certainly isn't an easy task for women who would usually instigate a fight with someone insulting them, and this is why this test is so difficult.

When his Uncle Vernon's sister comes to visit the Dursley home, Harry is delivered the last straw when she begins insulting his parents.

Shopping for a job could be problematic, and insulting to your current employer, if done inappropriately.

At the moment, she wasn't sure whether she found all his concern touching or insulting.

Then again, maybe she only wanted to believe that because to believe otherwise would be insulting.

Kris and Kiki both looked towards the sky when the thunder began.  They'd both given their jackets to Hannah, whose step was growing slower the farther they went into the jungle.  Kiki muttered but didn't openly bitch, probably knowing Kris had no patience for anyone insulting his mate.

She started to defend herself, but his implication was insulting.

His tone was beyond insulting.

Fanatics sought death by insulting the magistrates or by breaking idols, and in their enthusiasm for martyrdom became self-centred and forgetful of their normal duty.

Meanwhile Timur sent letters after the fugitive sons of Bayezid promising to confer on them their father's dominions, and protesting that his attack had been due merely to the insulting tone adopted towards him by Bayezid and to the entreaties of the dispossessed princes of Asia Minor.

An insulting decree was passed in the Cortes, ordering the prince Dom Pedro to come to Europe, which filled the Brazilians with alarm; they foresaw that without a central authority the country would fall back to its former colonial state subject to Portugal.

On the receipt by Arthur of the insulting message of the Roman emperor, demanding tribute, it is he who is despatched as ambassador to the enemy's camp, where his arrogant and insulting behaviour brings about the outbreak of hostilities.

It is free to every one to form his own conclusions in religious matters; and so we do no more than set forth the meaning of divine things as they appear to our minds without, however, attacking or insulting those who differ from us.

It was on this occasion that President Kruger, referring to the London Convention, spoke of Queen Victoria as a kwaaje Vrouw, an expression which caused a good deal of offence in England at the time, but which, to any one familiar with the homely phraseology of the Boers, obviously was not meant by President Kruger as insulting.

Proceeding to Christiansand in 1804, Hauge set up a printingpress to disseminate his views more widely, but was almost immediately arrested for holding illegal religious meetings, and for insulting the regular clergy in his books, all of which were confiscated; he was also heavily fined.

At the commencement of the reign of the tsar Nicholas II., in 1895, the Doukhobors became the victims of a series of persecutions, Cossack soldiers plundering, insulting, beating and maltreating both men and women in every way.

His residence at Linz was troubled by the harsh conduct of the pastor Hitzler, in excluding him from the rites of his church on the ground of supposed Calvinistic leanings - a decision confirmed, with the addition of an insulting reprimand, on his appeal to Wurttemberg.

When in difficulty he ran to her and flattered her with the name of Madame La Ressource - Madame Quick Wit - which did not prevent him from insulting and even kicking her when the immediate need of her help was over.

He rejected the insulting ultimatum of the Russian emperor.