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insulted their hosts by casually remarking about the outdated look of their home
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Recent Examples of insulting
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
Why reach for the insulting explanation when a rational one will do?
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
Asked about her comments on Thursday, Gallego said Lake’s attack is characteristically insulting.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
Trump’s rhetoric about jobs has been widely condemned by Democrats and Black leaders who have called it a racist and insulting way of implying that Black and Hispanic Americans take menial jobs.
—L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
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No matter, the response was swift and harsh from the often insulting and foul-mouthed Trump and other Republicans.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
Why reach for the insulting explanation when a rational one will do?
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
Asked about her comments on Thursday, Gallego said Lake’s attack is characteristically insulting.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
Trump’s rhetoric about jobs has been widely condemned by Democrats and Black leaders who have called it a racist and insulting way of implying that Black and Hispanic Americans take menial jobs.
—L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insulting
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Wagner took on the bulk of the offensive load in Banchero's absence, averaging 24.4 points per game.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Soto is still a far more accomplished offensive player than Tucker, who will turn 28 in January.Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
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But any unpalatable class issues at the center of the movie are smoothed over by the outrageous star power of Culkin, who is so charismatic as Kevin that the performance has followed him ever since.Erin Somers, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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An outrageous budget buster that’s heading for approval will blow a $200 billion hole in the trust fund.John Fund, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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The worst one was emotionally abusive and ridiculously mean.Essence, Essence, 17 Dec. 2024
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Yet other experts say that blanket message may miss the world where many people live, facing life in a high-crime neighborhood or worried about an abusive former partner.John Diedrich, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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Trump’s vituperative persona, his enmity toward multilateralism, and his extreme policy agenda could easily sink the United States’ prospects for meaningful leadership of the G-20.Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2024
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Unlike Rhoades, a vituperative colossus, however, Williams brings a steely determination and a Joe Friday, just-the-facts mien to his lawyering in the court of public opinion.Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
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Facts won’t deter Republicans on this point, however, for the same reason that Trump and his running mate, J. D. Vance, keep repeating their scurrilous lies about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of Ohio: white anxiety about a diversifying country has become one of the Party’s greatest assets.Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
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And Harriman was certainly subject to gossip, some of it scurrilous and sexist.Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
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Blink Twice nods at a tangle of different contemporary ailments: lifestyle fetishism, wellness hedonism, our obscene fealty to stolid tech bros and their untrammeled wealth.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
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Many are short baby names—partly because Australia prohibits long names, obscene words, and names with symbols or too many hyphens.1 Here are some of our favorite boys' names from the land down under.Sherri Gordon, Parents, 2 Dec. 2024
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Orange Beach has a vulgarity ordinance on the books, which was enacted about a decade ago amid concerns about vulgar or indecent T-shirts and other merchandise sold at souvenir stores.al, al, 20 Jan. 2023
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Because there are more good people than indecent ones.Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
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The other sticky reality is that the vast majority of prospective CT buyers don’t pay attention to fringe media invective but make very practical buying decisions rooted in dollars and cents.Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
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For those trying to come to terms with a particularly tumultuous election year full of deep divisions, ideological invective and personal insults, guidance can come from a historical figure whose insights into American politics still prove useful.Steven Watts, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Insulting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insulting. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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