Insulting

Examples

• It appeared to ascend them, not very promptly or spontaneously, yet with a display of stride and clatter meant to be insulting. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It is insulting my pride to suppose that. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Why, he has written me the most insulting letter possible. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Mr. Osborne, said Dobbin, with a faltering voice, it's you who are insulting the best creature in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She was proud and insulting, and you wanted to go away from her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Lord Kinnaird heard nothing as applied to himself, never having dreamed of such a thing as insulting or picking a quarrel with young Lambton. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Keep a civil tongue in your head, cried the young man, his face paling in anger, at the insulting tone of the sailor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Thou canst not mend that shot, Locksley, said the Prince, with an insulting smile. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The hardest of laughs, though brief and low, and by no means insulting, was the response of the rector. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• With my diary, the poor labourer (who forgives Mr. Blake for insulting her) is worthy of her hire. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Am I insulting? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In a little while we would say insulting things. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Your cursed family pride is insulting Godfrey, as it insulted ME when I married your aunt. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In the evening he walked softly home, this impudent wretch following, and insulting him all the way with the most scurrilous language. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It seemed to her that Gerald was deliberately insulting her, and infringing on the decent privacy of them all. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This was a new idea--this was too insulting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I could have almost murdered Meyler for this insulting speech; but that pride made me force myself to seem of his way of thinking. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• If you have brought me here to say insulting things---- she began. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I think she is very insulting. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mr. Sympson, I advise you not to become insulting. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A dry laugh, an insulting sneer, a contemptuous taunt, met by a nonchalant but most cutting reply, were the signals. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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