Insulted

Examples

• In the old days I would have insulted them and picked a fight. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She looked me over, from head to foot, as she might have looked at a stranger who had insulted her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The permission to strike when insulted will be an 'antidote' to the knife and will prevent disturbances in the State. Plato. The Republic.
• Quite the contrary, retorted Meyler, you are the man he has most insulted. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He had previously made her the happiest of human beings, and now he had insulted--she knew not what to say, how to class, or how to regard it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The Jesuits, in a phase of ascendancy, persecuted and insulted the Buddhists with great acrimony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I don't know what you think--I was never so insulted before in my life! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I never insulted you, sir. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• That's not the person who insulted me last night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• You felt yourself insulted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was but the day before my arrival that one of them had been most grossly insulted in the house of a publican. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He is likely to fly out as if you insulted him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. Raggles, said Becky in a passion of vexation, you will not surely let me be insulted by that drunken man? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The word had gone forth that whoever insulted the king should be thrashed, and whoever applauded him should be killed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have been grossly insulted in your eyes and in the eyes of others. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yes, and you insulted his memory. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He said a man was not to be insulted, then. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Alexander, blind with rage and jealousy, taunted and insulted his father. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I can't and won't permit them to be insulted in that way a second time! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is a poor Christian that is afraid of being insulted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I have been wandering ever since then--a poor castaway, scorned for being miserable, and insulted because I am alone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She thought nothing of his attachment, and was insulted by his hopes. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Quite independently of imitation, men on being insulted get angry and attack the insulter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I did not feel insulted. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But my own self-respect stood in the way of my meeting the person who had insulted me by sending me back my books. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I thank thee, Waldemar, said the Prince; thou remindest me, too, that I have a debt to pay to that insolent peasant who yesterday insulted our person. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The Count knew Mr. Dawson would never consent to Marian's taking a journey--he purposely insulted the doctor to get him out of the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You said he had insulted you---- He _had_ insulted me, interposed Shirley. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Your cursed family pride is insulting Godfrey, as it insulted ME when I married your aunt. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I was only going to say that we sometimes have dancing, and I wanted to know whether you would feel insulted if you were asked to come. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Edited by Ingram