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insulting English

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insulting

Jim's insulting comment angered everyone. But Karen's remark was more insulting than Jim's. True, but Al's comment was the most insulting of all.

insulting

(= contemptuous) expressing extreme contempt

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Simple sentences

It's a very insulting nickname.
I have no intention of insulting or provoking anybody.
I felt his silence insulting me.
She could no longer put up with his insulting words.
If you believe that by insulting you would solve the problem of fishermen, well, let me say, you deceive yourself.
Botany is the art of drying out plants with pieces of paper and insulting them in Greek and Latin.
Tom seemed to enjoy insulting people.
Tatoeba is insulting me!
That's insulting.
If Tom becomes insulting, show him the door.
Tom regrets insulting Mary.
Why are you insulting me?
This is insulting.
Nobody is insulting you.
Stop insulting me!
He regrets insulting her.
She regrets insulting him.

Movie subtitles

This number's insulting.
What did that woman mean by insulting you like that?
You think you have free license to be insulting?
I've had just about enough of your insulting remarks.
I further charge you with insulting an officer with vile names. according to Rule Three, Section Three of the law dealing with delinquents.
It rests with you, gentlemen, to answer this insulting challenge to our army.
Now that you've robbed us and had your fill of insulting us, we wish to leave.
You don't have to get insulting about it.
If you weren't so drunk and insulting, I could explain everything.
You're insulting!
Has this fellow been insulting you?
You were insulting to your mother and mean to Thorne, treated him like a servant.
Quit insulting the Lord's name in my presence.
Of all the insulting lines. Do you think I'd go out with any old sailor I've never even seen before?
And besides, they've been writing insulting notes.
Now see here, my good man. I've had just about enough of your insulting remarks.
In insulting our guests, they insult us.
That's an insulting sum to offer.
You're insulting.
What do you mean insulting my friend?
How do you expect me to run a store with you maniacs destroying priceless antiques insulting customers, disturbing the general routine?
Look here, you old rattlebrain. You've made trouble enough without getting insulting about it.
This is insulting!
Well I don't mind the insult to me, Mrs. Strong, but you're insulting Jerry too.
Decidedly. You're insulting!
So now you go around insulting policemen?
I'm not insulting you, Trudy.
Just as one civilized man to another, I. if that isn't insulting you.
You're insulting me? You'll see.

News and current affairs

Perhaps that analogy is rather insulting to those who play roulette.
In one case, the prosecutor's office brought criminal charges against me as editor-in-chief: I was accused of slandering an Armenian political figure and of insulting a state official.
Some countries, including the Netherlands, even have laws against deliberately insulting people on the grounds of their race or religion.
And, because those who believed this (virtually everyone whose voices were heard) belatedly perceived its insulting connotation, discussing the matter has caused considerable anguish in the years since.
Our laws prohibiting incitement to violence and insulting people for reasons of their religion are sufficient.
Desecrating a shrine, defacing a cross, or, in the US, burning a flag, is an aggressive and insulting act, one that causes real pain for believers.
Not only did China resist measures that had been under negotiation for the preceding year, but Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's decision to send a low-level official to meet with and point a finger at Obama was downright insulting.
Whatever one thinks of laws against spreading hatred or insulting people, the law remains a blunt instrument when it came to matters of speech.
In Japan, such skits are apparently regarded as humorous; in China, the skit was seen as lewd and insulting.
To invoke Voltaire is one thing, I thought at the time, but to act responsibly may presuppose refraining from insulting what is most sacred to others, whether it be Christ, Muhammad, or the Shoah.
At home, awareness is rising that Putin is damaging Russia's interests by insulting and intimidating everybody.
No media outlet would ever print such observations, which, when aimed at men, would appear insulting, inappropriately personal, and irrelevant.
This self-censorship is rather insulting to Jews, Hindus, and Muslims.
Western politicians' vain attempts to convince Putin that the eastward expansion of NATO and the EU would benefit Russia by creating a zone of peace and prosperity along its borders were naive and insulting.

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