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insulting

Speech parts

1. insulting - Noun

2. insulting - Adjective

3. insulting - Verb

5. insulting - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Insult

Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. Oscar Wilde

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. Ai Weiwei

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. Evan Esar

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. F. Scott Fitzgerald

We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans. Ann Coulter

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word-on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray. (64). Epictetus

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