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to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in
insulted their hosts by casually remarking about the outdated look of their home
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Recent Examples of insulting
Hannah Ryan, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
There would be nothing more insulting to our democracy, and to the memory of those who died in connection to that day, than letting rioters walk free.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
This disastrous budget is even more insulting as Los Angeles County grapples with the devastation from four major fires.
—Bill Essayli, Orange County Register, 11 Jan. 2025
Hinchcliffe, who is not Puerto Rican, was just plain cruel, insulting and dehumanizing.
—David Plazas, The Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
For many, the very idea was insulting and represented an abandonment of loyal fans in Birmingham who can’t afford to fly out to the United States.
—Hannah Ryan, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
There would be nothing more insulting to our democracy, and to the memory of those who died in connection to that day, than letting rioters walk free.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
This disastrous budget is even more insulting as Los Angeles County grapples with the devastation from four major fires.
—Bill Essayli, Orange County Register, 11 Jan. 2025
Hinchcliffe, who is not Puerto Rican, was just plain cruel, insulting and dehumanizing.
—David Plazas, The Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insulting
Adjective
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The Bears are preparing for a full overhaul of the offensive line.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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After back-to-back 4-13 seasons brought the departures of previous head coaches Bill Belichick and Jerod Mayo, wide receiver, offensive line, defensive line and linebacker sit among the top needs.—
Oliver Thomas,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Lady Gaga has made a career of wearing the most outrageous, impractical and confounding costumes in pop history.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
20 Feb. 2025
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The project to build a bullet train from Los Angeles to Sacramento is an outrageous example of a public work that lacked any fiscal responsibility or oversight from the state government.—
Jon Coupal,
Orange County Register,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Childhood’s a hugely impressionable time, even when you’re not being brought on the set of Psycho II to re-create the abusive early years of a murderous character played as an adult by your own father.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025
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His character is the family patriarch and an abusive alcoholic.—
Michael Paulson,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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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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One upshot was Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which to this day insulates social media from legal liability for the content — however incendiary or scurrilous — that users post.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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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
Adjective
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The truth about our involvement in Ukraine to oppose Russia is obscene.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Feb. 2025
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The amount of cash being tossed around is obscene, and that’s part of what makes the show guiltily watchable.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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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Newsletter On Politics In an era of invective and distrust, two California candidates turned a tie over to chance.—
Jess Bidgood,
New York Times,
19 Dec. 2024
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Once more, Donald Trump’s lawyers are attempting to override the guilty verdict of a jury in the Manhattan hush money case, asking the court to toss it while slinging invective at the office of District Attorney Alvin Bragg, which successfully won Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts this year.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
5 Dec. 2024
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“Insulting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insulting. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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