insult
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This behavior was on display during his recent CBS town hall event, where he tucked away the bad insult comedy and put on his choir boy mask.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Adding insult to injury, the end result is drab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The party's Scottish leader Malcolm Offord, who had tried to have the debate cancelled because it related to non-devolved matters, described it as an insult and a waste of time.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The final insult came on the Chargers’ last possession when Alt drew a holding penalty while trying to stop pass rusher Maxx Crosby, resulting in a safety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Some chess players felt that it was an insult to proclaim Fischer the greatest American player at seventeen, and thereby diminish the reputation of Reshevsky at fifty.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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At Sorkin’s version of the Wall Street Journal, everyone up and down the masthead — editors, writers, even interns — insults each other with such relish that someone should be written up by HR.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
For the rest of the convention, he was subjected to Trump’s regular insults about how he dresses poorly and looks bad.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
When facing questions from the committee, the tired-looking Patel did a much poorer job than Bondi of flinging insults at senators.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Instead, this week’s G-20 finance summit in the Blue Ridge Mountains devolved into trade spats, public insults and a dust-up over a photo op.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
She threw herself down, beating the hull of the boat with her fists and howling insults at the lake.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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I thought that would have insulted a grown man.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The boys also insulted the women in the group, including Cohen's wife.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
My career was insulted, and I was mocked for fumbling around while attempting to juice a pineapple with a woefully inadequate kitchen utensil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Petro and Trump have clashed and regularly publicly insulted each other over issues including drug-trafficking and US intervention in the region, though relations improved after a meeting at the White House in February.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Two years later a man from the government came to the village bringing a fine cow for the man, but the man said the government had insulted him, and he refused to take the cow.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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A homeless Turkish man found a quick way of getting himself a bed for the night -- by insulting the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Its walls were daubed with red-lettered graffiti insulting French police and signed with the date of the riots, 17 October.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
I will be doing my very best, because from an integrity standpoint, I think it’s really insulting to do anything else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Most importantly, being in a less reactive state would give me a better shot at attaining my actual goal—getting medical coverage—instead of simply insulting a customer service person.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
The one ever scrutinizing into the public opinion, and ready to follow where he could not lead it; the other insulting it by the most adverse sentiments and pursuits.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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