Synonym: affront, humiliate, offend. Antonym: esteem, honor, respect. Similar words: add insult to injury, consult, insulate, consultant, insulated, peninsula, consultation, sultry. Meaning: [ɪn'sʌlt] n. 1. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt 2. a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect. v. treat, mention, or speak to rudely.
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91. In some cultures, you insult your host if you do not accept their offer of food.
92. To add insult to injury, Alan's not even entitled to unemployment benefit.
93. It seemed like just another insult, but this was the one that finally got the bully's face slapped.
94. So Giuliani felt free to insult the United Nations and stage this infantile parking snit.
95. But mostly she just sits up there like a spider, sticking her head out of the window to insult the passers-by.
96. The, to add insult to injury, it started raining heavily.
97. To add insult to injury, our family health services authority is returning our claims for Haemophilus influenzae type B immunisation unpaid.
98. In such a case, honest insult, based upon fact, would make us feel more comfortable.
99. Our so-called democracy is a complete sham and an insult to the electorate.
100. Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level.
101. But hardly able to stand such an insult, she returns, mightily testing both his faith and his pocketbook.
102. She went out of her way to pass near him, and he went out of his way to insult her.
103. I saw this small sum not as a personal insult but as a gain for the charity I was supporting.
104. If your Night Goblins have bows they can add further insult by taking pot shots at the enemy while he squirms.
105. Fuckingsonofachickenshit, he thought, his eyes and mouth heavy with insult, his head bobbing slightly.
106. He had deceived her utterly from start to finish, and such calculated deceit was a downright insult!
107. Moreover, and to add insult to injury, these off-centre policies are never supported by a clear majority of the electorate.
108. It is a slap in the face and an insult.
109. Then, after that humiliation, he had added insult to injury by saying she'd be perfectly safe with him!
110. The bank not only refused to refund the money but, to add insult to injury, charged me for the letter telling me so!
111. Apparently he had expected that his explanation would be taken as an insult.
112. Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday.
113. I'd prefer it if you would not insult my friends.
114. Melinda Mullins -- a presence to remember -- plays the prima donna, Hilary,[http://sentencedict.com/insult.html] who tosses off an insult a minute.
115. That is an insult for mestizos, what you would call a half-breed.
116. Races insult each other, and make war, and make love, and they may mix these activities up.
117. Further, as described earlier, adding insult to injury, in their first months they had created additional work for themselves.
118. It would be a right insult to them to back off, and as you say, their goodwill could be handy.
119. Adding insult to injury, a double cross awaits our luckless hero in the final stanza.
120. It was an insult which only Cassio's death could avenge.
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