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insult

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That the “short list” was most of the world, or that the term ultimately devolved into an insult, seems unsurprising in retrospect.

From Fortune

It was an insult to the public as well, and a sad example of the state of American democracy five weeks before the election.

It wasn’t the insults or shouting that put the markets into a risk-off mood.

From Fortune

“Streamlining,” wrote Technical Editor Kevin Cameron in a February, 2002, piece about the star of the 2001 Tokyo Show, “would just be an insult to the air-crushing power of the supercharged engine.”

Adding insult to injury, my coworkers and I were offered only a pittance of severance to tide us over through this incredible time of uncertainty.

From Fortune

It was like a constant assault, an almost stupefying catalogue of mindless racial insult and injury.

Insult to injury, its $43 million gross was less than one-fifth of what Ted took in.

The cardinals had such a bad reputation that the very term “cardinal” became an insult in Renaissance Rome.

To add insult to injury, he procured male escorts while traveling for school business.

Watching novelists insult one another is one of the primary pleasures of his biography.

Yet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a Lascar should offer such an overt insult to a Brahmin!

He passed to and fro in the city without the least insult being offered him by any Spaniard.

Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.

He was determined to have it, if only because no greater insult can be inflicted on a Mohammedan than to bare his head.

This provided for, I will protect myself from future insult, depend upon it.

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On this page you'll find 174 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to insult, such as: abuse, affront, blasphemy, contempt, disgrace, and disrespect.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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