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    1. As long as jokes do not insult our conscience and religion, it is meant to be enjoyed


    2. " He said my name like it was an insult


    3. How dare you insult the Prince


    4. Only I knew that deep within the core of the shambling wreck that I had become, there was a small voice calling out with every insult, with every hurt, “Allahu Akbar


    5. “Who, me? When did I insult you, Yvonne? What are you talking about, are you crazy?” Helen protests and looks at me aghast, as if she couldn't understand what I was saying


    6. Mental illness is no more severe than any other human flaw and to pity us or to belittle us is an insult to someone with most likely a lot of potential behind that wall of mental blockage


    7. Tossing an insult back at them could


    8. His new wife also stopped short of her final insult and gave these wise words some serious consideration


    9. I will tell her they insult our ancestors and hold our village to ransom


    10. He informed Rayne that all women wore long gowns when attending the court; to do otherwise would be considered an insult

    11. I do not think your Lord will approve your actions, nor the insult to a member of the Queen’s court


    12. Tevid turned his back on them, an insult, and returned to his guests


    13. He sent a few dismissive gestures her way, like she was too inconsequential to worry about the insult with the bath


    14. Subtle Insults Think of a clever way to insult someone


    15. wife also stopped short of her final insult and gave these wise


    16. that world – I will not insult their memory by calling them Fairies


    17. You’ve become intimate with me and you insult my looks


    18. I really didn’t mean it as an insult


    19. to the insult was the fact the Pick was the dealer and there was more than money


    20. “It bothered me that you pulled away, that’s considered an insult

    21. The words snapped at more than her temper, it was a personal insult


    22. “I thought it was an insult to a woman to make contact with her


    23. He’s managed to hurl an insult at


    24. insult to the King’s representative – namely, me! How


    25. Having this mortal beep so ridiculously late was kind of an insult


    26. He took it as an insult to be sent to the edge of the city, when the war was being fought at its heart


    27. Adding insult to injury, President Bush had just signed the Second Chance Act, which was


    28. "We will tell the truth, as you request, you don’t need to insult us


    29. Luckily for everyone, Theodorous was unable to grasp the insult


    30. Alec didn't mind the insult directed toward his hero status and was actually glad to see the Death Guard

    31. Such an insult could lead to him withdrawing


    32. I vowed silently to Ares that if this Captain Hycron ever comes to Ithaca again, I’ll repay the insult, but not necessarily in the same part of his body


    33. “Sir! You may be a famous man, while I’m a ragged slave, but there’s no cause to insult


    34. “He said, he warned you that your insult would cost you something, and I was the price


    35. Chloe ignored my insult, tossed her curls with an amused smile, then resumed her


    36. I offer praise and you hear it as insult


    37. Andrastus would never stand for the insult


    38. It was almost an insult to her


    39. The next minute he’d be in a rage over some imagined insult


    40. Alternatively, the dream symbolizes some sort of insult

    41. At the same time he could write an insult on the lift wall, which would wind up his tactless supervisor


    42. To add insult to injury, the local newspaper once described him as 'the man with the largest nose in the East Midlands'


    43. She knew Glen meant it as a compliment, not an insult, but nothing upset her more than being branded a heartbreaker, which is exactly what she was


    44. “You would insult our manhood,”


    45. “Oh yes I’m with the 2nd Battalion but I stand in awe of you and your exploits on Gallipoli which people never seem to stop talking about”, he made this sound like the insult it was meant to be


    46. Before the commencement of the present disturbances, the coercive power of the mother-country had always been able to restrain those factions from breaking out into any thing worse than gross brutality and insult


    47. To add insult to injury, when Al Gore was questioned about his presence in the Oval Office when a Chinese gentleman presented Clinton with a briefcase containing $600,000


    48. “Because wishing for death is an insult to those who have it forced upon them


    49. “But isn’t that contradicting everything you said to me about wishing for death being an insult to others?”


    50. Morning greeted the adventurers with a light shower as a final insult after the torrential rain of the previous night













































    1. "I need to find out if Athnu cooked first, he'll be highly insulted if he has and we leave


    2. She stared straight at the liquor on the shelves as if the Jager had insulted her mother


    3. She sits almost a head taller than me, sipping froth off a White Russian and staring at the back of the bar, as if the —Jager— on the shelf had insulted her mother


    4. ’ He replied, straightening his back and glaring at me as though I have insulted him


    5. ’ He said his temper rousing – I recognise the signs! ‘She is not amenable to what she sees as charity and I insulted her by suggesting that she couldn’t look after herself


    6. their friends and does it badly, he may have to not only deal with the one he insulted but all of her friends as well


    7. 'He just feels insulted that I acted without his


    8. Philippe, Henri Dubois (whose wife he'd insulted earlier that


    9. 'The Cardinal insulted his wife at


    10. Apparently he was enraged when the Cardinal insulted his

    11. She was embarrassed by his embarrassment, and seemed insulted by his refusal


    12. The girl was highly insulted, and hurt, when I wouldn’t have sex with her


    13. Have I insulted you in some way?” she asked, quite calmly, she was proud to note, for she wasn’t very calm inside


    14. he couldn’t see how Dean Grossin’s actions had insulted


    15. Of course, she did not say she was fond of animals as pets, because she had the sense to see that Toad would be extremely insulted


    16. "They were insulted that I worried about their ability to pay


    17. he had been insulted


    18. He’d also tell dad how I had insulted


    19. Was he insulted that she’d failed to find some hidden rhythm? Or had she misread a word? Philemon’s scrawl was none too steady


    20. he thought I insulted him

    21. Ever since they’d met, he’d belittled her abilities, insulted her family, and now condemned her honesty


    22. And he’d insulted her repeatedly


    23. Later at the Security Station on the Huntress's bridge, “NO; we don't have any 'special black ops' with secret weapons that could do that!” Ravena was plainly insulted


    24. The king has been insulted and somebody is about to pay the price for having done it


    25. He looked insulted at that


    26. ” He looked very insulted and hurt by what we had said but the information he had was burning a hole in his brain and he could no longer contain it he had to tell someone or he would explode


    27. „kitchen cabinet," explosive temper (As a young man he fought a duel with a man who had insulted his wife, and carried a bullet in his chest for the remainder of his days


    28. He had never felt so insulted


    29. had been imposed upon and insulted


    30. If her doubts troubled or insulted him, he did not hint of it

    31. I do not know of any serious casualties from this technique except for a few fatherly talks between the drivers who felt insulted by the copycat methods of the other driver who "f obviously don't have f ears to hear his f engine running at f full revs and should have f braked first since he was f already in the f intersection


    32. I was about to call the local Zoo for assistance when I remembered that they were still insulted about the cheetah counting incident (just jealous of our thorough methods and besides they did ask if we wanted to count the remainder)


    33. He looked at me insulted


    34. Beth felt like a bull facing a matador, with the entire roomful of people watching on while this man abused and insulted her


    35. And insulted, because they have my name confessed


    36. “I’m just trying to make your friend here feel at ease,” the Swede said throwing his hands in the air, acting the insulted part


    37. When he laughed in hearing them, one of his uncles told him, very sternly, not to do that in front of those others because they might feel insulted and become very angry


    38. - Is that my fault now? she said slightly insulted


    39. Now she had twice in a row insulted him when he was actually being nice


    40. The anger towards Alaric who had insulted her and Elior so coarsely

    41. Enilia for a moment looked insulted at her friend, but then giggled too


    42. The kitten turned with an insulted and warning expression in his cute face


    43. He was horribly ashamed because Faith Meredith had been insulted in his presence and he had not tried to punish her insulter


    44. "He insulted you and he insulted my mother," said Walter, with the same deadly calm


    45. “Because she insulted me, and I was angry


    46. One time, a French officer insulted the powerful Seneca chief Half King during a parley for alliance


    47. Women may speak the truth about these matters but guys feel insulted when what women say actually turns out to be true


    48. I insisted that I would be insulted if he didn’t accept our agreed-upon price


    49. “Hey! Isn't that a bit mean,” I hated it when people insulted my family


    50. I suppose I should have been insulted, but the truth was I could only hunt and fish because it was necessary not because I wanted to do so











































    1. At work I confront a never-ending war from persons of dubious value: First of all Nicoleta, a clerk, who is always insulting, mocking and slandering not only me but other colleagues as well


    2. She felt guilty for forcing Alan to adapt to their culture and guilty for insulting Luray by forcing Alan to mate with her


    3. said sorry for insulting his guru


    4. “I was not insulting you, I was merely inquiring as your intentions


    5. insulting them and not the musician


    6. He…he made some insulting remarks about Jews and


    7. It wasn’t that he resented it, or found the contradictory title insulting


    8. he never said anything insulting to Nerissa


    9. “Hey, don’t be insulting the apes, will ya!” I retorted


    10. “That’s enough Elijah Mack I won’t have you insulting guests in my house and especially not your comrades and mine your language

    11. Insulting him was one thing, but making insinuations about Kiri and Alexia was something he would not stand for


    12. First was about a youngster who had a lot of fun by insulting the SAP and then driving away on his scrambler at top speed


    13. It may seem, to literalist proponents of this highly reverenced book, that this also newly proposed understanding from science, that biological evidence clearly indicates there must be a connection between us and our “lesser cousins,” is insulting to what they are required to believe


    14. operated on the grapevine which is insulting and degrading


    15. for it, but do so without ever insulting them or treating them badly, as that would be a poor reflec-


    16. After informing her that Josie would stay with her family, Agatha started insulting him, calling him all kinds of names, so rude, so gross and so pornographic they are not fit to print


    17. “Lord, you know I didn’t mean to be insulting


    18. Of insulting instruction given


    19. “And the Dragon Lord, he tells ‘em to go ahead and try, too! Any assassin that tries to kill him gets sent home with the same beating they’d get for insulting my wife


    20. More dust burst out as they were insulting Christ

    21. Some in the crowd cheered, and some laughed, and some grumbled and growled at the compliment delivered in insulting terms


    22. She had left me alone for so long, teaching me nothing about who I was or what to believe, and then I almost die and am in agony every day -- and when Aasa's ghost shows up, she is more interested in what happens to some outlander slave-bitch than her own son! It was insulting, like my life meant nothing to her


    23. Eventually after a few too many wines a young officer had managed to make an insulting comment about Azeth and the Su-Katii, asking a fellow loudly how an old bag of bones had ever managed to get past the so-called rigorous training regime of the Su-Katii, let alone advise the Aristrian army on how to fight


    24. Some would find the teacher’s words subtly insulting (what with it


    25. This was the thanks he got for everything he'd done for her—an insulting rejection


    26. You’re insulting the girl to say that you think she’s only interested in money or hard bodies


    27. When we lift the sight, Gertrude and Leticia were looking at us fixedly and suddenly popped in with insulting phrases that we could not understand because they were speaking the two at the same time


    28. We kept it from you to spare your feelings, knowing how narrow your views are, but your insulting and defamatory statements this evening leave me no option but to tell you


    29. The witch screamed loudly, insulting me and calling me with incoherent phrases


    30. Poets insulting poets? Typical human nature

    31. you‘re in a position of power, there‘s nothing more insulting than surrendering some of that


    32. How insulting is that?’


    33. She yells profanities at me, insulting my manhood, of all the silly things to do


    34. He leaps straight for the creature’s throat, but it ducks aside and pushes him down, and runs, waiving its tail and shaking its hairy butt at Galluk, insulting him with every step it takes


    35. not hesitate insulting an ugly, poor chap, as sometimes


    36. INSULTING ,IZ WITHOUT MEANING TO


    37. insulting the Church and its founder


    38. " The memories replying in my mind of what that bastard said to Lily, and the things he implied were just insulting to not only her, but to me as well


    39. "Why should I burden myself with every nameless vagabond that the sea casts up?" snarled Zaporavo, his look and manner more insulting than his words


    40. Jean’s ex-husband had dismissed the idea of evolution as repugnant, insulting him by linking him to apes

    41. But the other part was insulting, infuriating, completely unfair, even though it contained some truth


    42. Chica could have said something insulting about not being afraid of a skinny mangy mutt who couldn’t even control a couple of pups


    43. imagine that it’s about as insulting to the restaurant as


    44. They even used glass, a cheap silica-based material – how insulting


    45. " Jerry didn’t have a clue how to respond to this guy without insulting him, and for Charles, insults were redundant


    46. The missing shoe was the least insulting of his appearance, as he had not only slept in his clothes but missed a good washing in a while to boot


    47. was insulting to me as I had produced and


    48. even mocking and playfully insulting that encourage the coachee to


    49. He was very insulting and rude with me


    50. he said, even the part about the insulting nickname; it’s











































    1. subtle gibes and always rowdy insults where the sun rarely ever shined (you could


    2. Over the next few weeks, as the procedures and the rituals bedded down, as Robbie and Mick and the other guards who rotated on shift, mixed bonhomie with casual insults and violence, I started to listen and to watch


    3. The rugby boys could stuff their less than subtle gibes and always rowdy insults where the sun rarely ever shined (you could never quite tell with one or two of them)


    4. As she walked along the line of potential suitors she spat out insults at every one of them


    5. insults at every one of them


    6. Subtle Insults Think of a clever way to insult someone


    7. ‘We’ve not come to trade insults with you


    8. When the captain couldn't stand the insults any more he yelled, “Get 'em!”


    9. who heard his insults to their race that day


    10. I'm forced to defend myself from death, but insults are wasted on me

    11. He had even tried to do so, several times, but the little beast was too quick and would always dart away, fleeing to the rafters above where it would continue to cast insults in its musical voice


    12. If he opposes them, on the contrary, and still more, if he has authority enough to be able to thwart them, neither the most acknowledged probity, nor the highest rank, nor the greatest public services, can protect him from the most infamous abuse and detraction, from personal insults, nor sometimes from real danger, arising from the insolent outrage of furious and disappointed monopolists


    13. Another black unsung hero of today"s America who has suffered many insults from uneducated blacks and liberal white demagogues, especially with his publishing of „The Content of Their Character


    14. The Dutch were pushing on, saying sorry in Dutch which was understood as German and they were then met with some of the choicest insults that only Austrian, Polish and German Jews could give each other in a synagogue


    15. We shouted well-meant insults after them and left in disgust at their long haired liberal ways of calling us for nonsense


    16. Just another ordinary day in the Drake line of insults


    17. Every now and then two tribes would attack each other about real or imagined insults and the Police were well able to sort it out


    18. Many Army sappers sighed and stopped sweeping when they had to dive out of the road whilst searching for landmines and the police Casspirs came roaring past with the members sitting on the roof shouting well-meant insults at their wanker ways


    19. Apparently the young & pretty mom in her fancy car gives nothing but insults


    20. It seems as though much of the evangelical church has followed the lead of contemporary society in that debates on important issues apparently cannot be carried out unless accompanied by mud-slinging and aggressive insults

    21. Speak of him no more, it insults me gravely


    22. The insults, and even injuries, that Christian pilgrims suffered aroused bitter feeling in the west


    23. What a—I run through a short list of insults in my mind before listening to her continue


    24. The question awakes inside me an animal rage that won’t be satisfied by sharp words or insults


    25. He could never conceive or utter the vulgar, ribald insults of which Dan Reese had unlimited command


    26. Norman Douglas' insults burned in her soul, kindling a scorching flame


    27. “He had the most amazing vocabulary of Otomi insults


    28. Mistreat me with abuse, insults, and the like,


    29. Much to my surprise, Cuauhtzin seemed to like him and made little cooing sounds to him, rather than the usual Otomi insults


    30. What followed was at least ten minutes of screaming and insults (which I don't feel comfortable repeating) directed mostly at each others personal appearances, and Kurumi insisting that Nina was so ugly that there was nothing she could do in the bathroom to fix it

    31. Akito crossed his arms and watched as I continued to yell out insults at Itsuki who was hiding behind the garden fence


    32. This is to protect you against any insults,


    33. “Can we stop with the insults already?”


    34. It is a ticket to insults, humiliation, character assassination, and rejection


    35. insults at each other like Jackie Chan throws punches


    36. “If this relationship is going to be about insults then we better quit while we’re at it” I teased back


    37. I had to laugh, thinking that it sounded a lot like one of William's thinly veiled insults to pick up girls


    38. In between insults, she kept angrily insisting that Josie belonged to her and that Roger could never take back Josie’s love from her


    39. Unable to mount an attack they resorted to hurling harmless insults at the builders


    40. “As for unfriendly insults, if they are truths or opinions, the person being insulted can insult the other person in return, or they can leave, or they can ask the insulter to leave, if the person being insulted legally controls the premises

    41. If the insults are harmful lies about named persons or groups, that’s slander, which should always be illegal


    42. “Did you not learn from your last divine visitation that breaking the Withdrawal by speaking to you can only be done with the unanimous consent of all the gods, according to agreements we have forged unanimously among us after extensive debate?!! Did you never think that the consensus for such a visitation might not be instantly achieved, even for the gods?!! Particularly when our attention is demanded by you only moments after an alien god has appeared on Kellaran?!! That perhaps the intervention of that alien god at a crucial moment in a pivotal event, and it’s insults to us, might not merit some discussion by us, and that it is most certainly of a higher priority than your impatient concerns?!!! Did you?!!!”


    43. As ongoing profanity and insults to God grew louder, dust was getting thicker in the air


    44. 6 Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately to enjoy the partnership of marriage exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered on their myrrh-anointed heads were hurried along unveiled; and in the midst of outlandish insults set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn


    45. My heart aches to remember my martyred sisters -- brutally, mercilessly butchered; or dragged in chains, naked and loaded with insults, to the ships of the north-men; or drowned in attempting to escape the island; or, most tragically, driven to the sin of suicide


    46. "But how can I do that? He ignores all my insults and dirty looks


    47. the car back and forth, bellowing insults into the windows


    48. "The foreigner got wrathful and shouted insults


    49. He'd done little of it before, and hesitated to make a botch, but Carl accused Trask of dogging it as payback for his insults


    50. The clatter of their armour and shouted insults filled the valley with an unpleasant crescendo and the screams of the dying soon followed












































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    Synonyms for "insult"

    affront insult abuse contumely revilement vilification diss offend scorn belittle slur dishonour slander offence indignity outrage slap

    "insult" definitions

    a rude expression intended to offend or hurt


    a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect


    treat, mention, or speak to rudely