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Insult   /ɪnsˈəlt/  /ˈɪnsˌəlt/   Listen
noun
Insult  n.  
1.
The act of leaping on; onset; attack. (Obs.)
2.
Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity. "The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief."
3.
(Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.
Synonyms: Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See Affront.


verb
Insult  v. t.  (past & past part. insulted; pres. part. insulting)  
1.
To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. (Obs.)
2.
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.


Insult  v. i.  
1.
To leap or jump. "Give me thy knife, I will insult on him." "Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king."
2.
To behave with insolence; to exult. (Archaic) "The lion being dead, even hares insult." "An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity."





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"Insult" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon me as you have upon Captain Farnsworth," he said, with an insulting leer and in a tone of prurient innuendo. "I am not susceptible, my dear." This more for Farnsworth's benefit than to insult her, albeit he was not in a mood ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... almost impassable; the landing-place being steep and high, and the launch at a long distance. Near a dozen grimy workmen lent us a hand. They refused any reward; and, what is much better, refused it handsomely, without conveying any sense of insult. 'It is a way we have in our countryside,' said they. And a very becoming way it is. In Scotland, where also you will get services for nothing, the good people reject your money as if you had been trying to corrupt a voter. When people take the trouble to do dignified ...
— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson
... "Don't insult Mr. Hilderman's precious view by reading the paper in his smoking-room, Mr Ewart," he said, with a loud laugh. "As a Highlander you should have ...
— The Mystery of the Green Ray • William Le Queux
... viceroy's ship, to try his temper, and to daunt the courage of his people. It pleased God this morning, when I had least leisure for mourning, to call my only son, George Downton, to his mercy, who was buried next morning ashore, and the volleys intended to insult the viceroy, served also ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr
... you with material for a lovely garment, would you insult her by throwing it aside and describing the beautiful garments you had worn ...
— The Heart of the New Thought • Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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