insult
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Before we started calling one another “performative,” Tucker, Brownstein and Phair came from a time when “poser” was the worst insult and sin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
As they were exchanging back slaps and handshakes, someone hurled the first insult: “Did My Little Pony throw up in your closet? I hate it when that happens.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Just a movie that doesn’t insult us for buying a ticket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
It is now an offence for players or officials to insult someone because of their race, religion, ethnicity, colour, nationality or background.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
I bite my lip at the insult, unsure whether—beyond me—her crack was supposed to be about culture, quantum, or the nearly forty tribal Nations within what’s currently called Oklahoma.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The finance ministers’ gathering comes to a close amid a global bond-market selloff, spats over tariffs and public insults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
CNN released a statement praising Holmes for asking “a tough, relevant, and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people” and calling personal insults “beneath the office.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
He added, “I’ve received a lot of insults in my day, but that might be the lowest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Like Owens, Davis endured humiliations off the field: threats, insults, segregated hotels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Vonetta seemed to bask in our insults, wearing each one proudly.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
I was there the night President Obama insulted then-businessman Donald Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In April 1828, Russell Jarvis, a journalist and critic of President John Quincy Adams, believed the president had insulted Mrs. Jarvis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Police say the brothers insulted a woman during an altercation over loud noise.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
How can the man who styled himself as the political whisperer of Washington, with real influence over American politicians, be sidelined quite so comprehensively and insulted so publicly by his key US ally?
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
She might have been insulted if he wasn’t trying so hard.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
In India, emphasizing someone’s status as a widow in a negative way is considered insulting since widows have traditionally been ostracized and seen as carrying bad luck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
According to Human Rights Watch, "several penal code provisions, as well as the cybercrime law, criminalise speech deemed insulting to religion, the emir or foreign leaders".
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb seems to take great delight in insulting you, especially after the politician River was supposed to protect gets hit on the head by a pot of paint and dies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram found Wilby guilty of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Matthias peered through the cracks at the insulting prisoner.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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