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insult English

Meaning insult meaning

What does insult mean?
Definitions in simple English

insult

If you insult someone, you say or do something rude to them. He insulted me by calling my country a dirty little city.

insult

An insult is a rude word or action. The protesters yelled insults at the police.

insult

(= diss) treat, mention, or speak to rudely He insulted her with his rude remarks the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone (= abuse) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse they yelled insults at the visiting team a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect turning his back on me was a deliberate insult

Synonyms insult synonyms

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Topics insult topics

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Conjugation insult conjugation

How do you conjugate insult?

insult · verb

Examples insult examples

How do I use insult in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Don't insult her.
A person like you cannot insult me.
It is an insult to her.
That is a studied insult.
It is nothing less than an insult to her.
The phrase is meant to insult people.
Just pass such an insult.
I'll get even with you for this insult!
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Don't insult me in company.
His joke borders on insult.
Such was his pride that he could not bring himself to ignore the insult.
She could not put up with the insult.
Your remark amounts almost to insult.
I can't put up with an insult like this.
I cannot bear such an insult.
He suffered an insult.
I didn't mean to insult anyone.
I didn't mean to insult anybody.
There is no greater insult to life than premature ejaculation.
Tom and Mary insult each other all the time.
They do not accuse me, they insult; they do not fight me, they calumniate, and they don't allow me the right of defense.
I will get revenge for this insult, you can be sure of that!
I do not know whether to take it as a compliment or an insult.
Nobody wants to insult my country.
Nobody wanted to insult my country.

Movie subtitles

I will not allow you to insult this man any further!
Do you want to hang out for a while and insult each other?
I will make this woman my official Mistress, so that no one must dare insult her.
However being a little underweight he would ignore the insult.
From that day on, Gwymplaine decided to hide his face forever. in order to not insult the daylight.
If what you want is to insult who you feel attracted to, just forget it.
Here is where I belong. Your presence here is an insult to poverty.
Anne, are you going to sit there and watch this man insult us?
You insult them and act like a boor.
They insult the poor but honest boy by offering him alimony.
You'll pay for this insult!
HE'S VERY EASY TO INSULT.
IF THAT ISN'T AN INSULT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
Tell your prisoner not to insult me.
Refusing a gift is a grave insult.
That's not an insult.
Are you going to watch him insult us?
Now you insult my intelligence.
The more acid, the quicker the liquid rubber resents the insult, and stiffens up into an indignant mass.
All the money in the world cant wipe out his insult to me.
Perhaps if you insult him.
I've got an appointment to insult Ambassador Trentino.
If that isn't an insult!
In insulting our guests, they insult us.
Not to insult you, but you're making quite a face.
I am doing to introduce Madame officially at court. because then no one will dare to insult her.
That's an insult.
If he meant it as an insult I think you've got a very good suit under Section. 819, yes, 819.
Well I don't mind the insult to me, Mrs. Strong, but you're insulting Jerry too.
Most of them are too drunk to talk intelligently or else they insult you.
You can't stand there and insult Gladdie.
That supposed to be an insult?
Insult me. I deserve it.
First you take advantage of me, then you insult me!

News and current affairs

Always keen to assert the freedom to insult Muslims, the Dutch Freedom Party wants to ban all mosques.
Morales had to land in Vienna, and Latin American leaders were furious at what they took to be an insult to their dignity.
You cannot legally insult people on the grounds of their race, beliefs, or sexual orientation.
Such a demonstration, it was quite plausibly argued, would be an insult to a community that included Holocaust survivors.
Like its statement on the destruction of Sufi shrines, it denied involvement in the attack on the US Consulate, but stressed the gravity of the insult against the Prophet that putatively triggered it.
This year's commemoration was an insult to the revolution's legacy.
Adding insult to injury, in Greece and Italy, two of the hardest-hit countries, financial markets effectively deposed elected, if imperfect, governments.
He then added insult to injury both by failing to do all that he could to curb the violence, which followed the Sharon visit and by releasing more than one hundred accused terrorists from Palestinian prisons.
People have recently compared him to Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili - whether as an insult or as a compliment.
In February 2003, the Duma passed a decree stating that the Sakharov museum exhibition's purpose was to incite religious hatred and to insult believers and the Orthodox Church.
Nobody is out to insult the Polish people gratuitously.
That convention not only is an insult to women, but also makes rape prosecutions far more difficult.
And, adding insult to injury, about half the payment goes to branches of foreign banks.
The choice of Libya to chair the UN Human Rights Commission adds insult to injury.
Others said that the images were an insult to Islam.
Hundreds of millions now see themselves as sharing in the nation's dignity, and are eager to contribute to it, as well as to defend it from insult.
When China summoned India's ambassador in Beijing to the foreign ministry at 2 a.m. for a dressing-down over the Tibetan protests in New Delhi, India meekly acquiesced in the insult.
Putin added insult to injury by talking to his associates rather than to Yanukovych.
But the insult represented by attempted EU and NATO expansion runs deeper.
But we believed, and I still believe, that it would be neither wise nor responsible to attempt to limit it, and that the correct way to respond to a perceived insult is to present a counterargument, not to mount a terrorist attack.
And, to add insult to injury, banks in advanced countries, especially those receiving aid from their governments, seem to be pulling back from lending in developing countries, including through branches and subsidiaries.
I mean no insult to the House of Luxembourg when I say that it is unlikely that a great leader will emerge from that tiny country, especially given its generally uncontentious politics.
But his opponent was Nigerian-born, and the remark was a racist insult.

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