Insult
[ɪn'sʌlt]
Definition
(noun.) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; 'turning his back on me was a deliberate insult'.
Typist: Shelby--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
(v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
(v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
(v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
(v. i.) To leap or jump.
(v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Affront, offence, indignity, outrage, abuse.
v. a. Affront, offend, abuse, treat with insolence, offer an indignity to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Affront, abuse,[See INDIGNITY]
SYN:Affront, outrage, dishonor, provoke, mock, ridicule
ANT:Respect, salute, honor, praise, flatter, compliment, gratify
Typed by Belinda
Definition
v.t. to treat with indignity or contempt: to abuse: to affront.—n. (in′sult) abuse: affront: contumely.—adjs. Insult′able capable of being insulted; Insult′ant (rare) insulting.—n. Insult′er (obs.) one who makes an attack.—adj. Insult′ing conveying insult: insolent: contemptuous.—adv. Insult′ingly in an insulting or insolent manner.—n. Insult′ment (Shak.) insult.
Editor: Trudy
Examples
- Forced to fly her husband's roof by this insult, the coward had pursued his revenge by taking her child from her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Fond as I was of her, I felt indignantly the insult offered to me in that reply. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Have I no claim to be spared the insult of your asking me what you have done? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Tucked away out of sight, I dare say, thought Jo, who could forgive her own wrongs, but hotly resented any insult offered her family. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She was stung, as if this were an insult. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Never by word or deed have you attempted to take advantage of my defenceless condition to insult or torture me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Never, if Saint Antoine knew his own sufferings, insults, and wrongs! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He is made of venomous insults and affronts, from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How there were more years; more impertinences, ignorances, and insults. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Thou never had one, Pilar told him, the insults having reached the ultimate formalism in Spanish in which the acts are never stated but only implied. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There he perched, hurling taunts and insults at the raging, foaming beast fifty feet below him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Haven't you yourself declared that the fellow has heaped provocations, insults, and affronts on you, or something to that effect? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Perhaps the insults of the men were not, however, so intolerable to her as the sympathy of certain women. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.