insult
IPA: ɪnsˈʌɫt
noun
- (uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
- (countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
- (countable, uncountable, medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
- (countable, also figuratively, archaic) An assault or attack; (specifically, military, obsolete) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
- (countable, obsolete) An act of leaping upon.
verb
- (transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
- (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To leap or trample upon.
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Examples of "insult" in Sentences
- The tone is demeaning and insulting.
- The tone is insulting and demeaning.
- The senators of the day were insulted.
- Even the title of the article is insulting.
- The emissary was insulted in the Mysore court.
- The subject is nauseating, puerile and insulting.
- It is insulting to both the Scottish and the Welsh.
- The insults of the cartoons is primarily religious.
- Don't insult the intelligence of the administrators.
- The caricature is not an insult or degradation of the person.
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