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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211. The technique he chose cunningly - was to blatantly insult his audience.
212. Gypsies and Travellers are the only social group that it is still acceptable to insult.
213. It is forbidden to discriminate against, insult, maltreat or desert mental patients.
214. Since he has apologized, you'd hatter not pile insult on insult.
215. Mrs Howe's views may be obnoxious and hateful but to treat them as a hate crime is an insult to the memory of people like Michael Causer and Ian Baynham, both brutally kicked to death for being gay.
216. Tony Blair has received a double insult from the Literary Review, with the nomination of his bestselling autobiography, A Journey, for its bad sex award.
217. India was on her feet, her lean body quivering with insult.
218. Insult, libel, false accusationfalse incrimination directed against citizens by any means is prohibited.
219. His insult was intentional.
220. This is a witting reaction to the Bush Administration's tendency to diss our allies and insult — or invade — our enemies.
221. He has compared a prominent opponent of the switch to a local 'avaava' fish -- a sea creature that swims in shallow waters and eats garbage, an insult in Samoan culture.
222. To add insult to injury, the Bureau of Labour Statistics now says 366,000 more jobs were lost than it first estimated in the year to last March.
223. Minerva could not forbear to admire, yet felt indignant at the insult.
224. Later, to add insult to injury, an expert in Munchausen by proxy decided, simply by watching a television programme, that it was actually Sally Clark's husband who did it.
225. Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult ; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
226. To add insult to injury they also took their jailer with them.
227. Municipal Committee of Shijiazhuang quit the scene is one kind of attitude of government, and every country stops selling chinese milk powder is one kind of the whole world's insult to China.
228. Accustomed to John Reed 's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult.
229. We added two students to that dorm room; She personal note to her insult to injury.
230. Pelting someone with shoes is considered a grave insult in the Arab world.
231. It's warm luster a poultice against a wall against insult. It a door on hunger.
232. Here's a short list of what not to say to avoid insult or embarrassment at any social occasion.
232. Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
233. The clatter only seems to insult the ears, and what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry if the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pond at night?
234. The deepest insult that one tagger can give another is to 'line' his 'tag', which is done by drawing a line through it.
235. As the book of Proverbs says "A wise man ignores an insult: it is to his glory to overlook an offense."
236. First, the basement flooded, and then, to add insult to injury, a pipe burst in kitchen.
237. Discrimination against, insult of and infringement upon disabled persons shall be prohibited.
238. He called me a lily - livered coward, and I umbrage at the insult.
239. What you said to her is to add insult to injury.
240. Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
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