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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
insult
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shout abuse/insults
▪ He was surrounded by a group of boys who shouted abuse at him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
intelligence
▪ You insult my intelligence with your crude methods!
▪ I wouldn't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other.
▪ George tells the jury he will not insult their intelligence by developing a point any further, then develops it.
■ VERB
feel
▪ Mr Hunt said Diaz lost control when he felt he was being insulted and goaded by the other group of people.
▪ Staff would feel insulted if they were told they had to go to such workshops, so they must be mandatory.
▪ So feel free to make the case, and I will feel free to be insulted.
▪ So Giuliani felt free to insult the United Nations and stage this infantile parking snit.
▪ When my friends visit me I never feel insulted by what they bring, nor if they come empty-handed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I won't insult you by explaining the rules of the game.
▪ In some cultures, you insult your host if you do not accept their offer of food.
▪ Jarvis was fired for insulting a customer.
▪ questions that insult the intelligence of the interviewee
▪ They offered me $20 for a whole day's work - I felt really insulted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I want to insult this guy.
▪ She hadn't called him ever since she had insulted him.
▪ She went out of her way to pass near him, and he went out of his way to insult her.
▪ Then the chief insulted him and the pony, saying the animal looked just like a mud pony.
▪ Those who invoke it are signalling an equivocal stance on slavery, at best, and thus are insulting all black people.
▪ You insult my intelligence with your crude methods!
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
▪ That was the final insult, then.
▪ The final insult, Blanche knew, would be the smile Taczek would sport when released.
personal
▪ He took it as a personal insult.
▪ We would try to top the others in hurling personal insults.
▪ The political campaign degenerated into the ugliest in recent memory. Personal insults and accusations swamped efforts to debate policies.
▪ I saw this small sum not as a personal insult but as a gain for the charity I was supporting.
▪ They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult.
▪ Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday.
■ VERB
add
▪ If your Night Goblins have bows they can add further insult by taking pot shots at the enemy while he squirms.
▪ There was no point Tuesday in adding to the insult of the Bulls' 9-46 record.
▪ The, to add insult to injury, it started raining heavily.
▪ Then, to add insult to penury, the bond market exploded.
▪ But the finger stayed down and, to add insult, Sri Lanka's batsmen trotted a cheeky leg bye.
▪ Further, as described earlier, adding insult to injury, in their first months they had created additional work for themselves.
▪ To add insult to injury the roof leaked.
▪ To add insult to injury, our family health services authority is returning our claims for Haemophilus influenzae type B immunisation unpaid.
hurl
▪ There is not much to be achieved by hurling insults.
▪ We would try to top the others in hurling personal insults.
trade
▪ The two men continued to trade heartfelt insults, the gist of which revealed normally submersed beliefs.
▪ The two camps traded insults, moans and jeers, threatening occasionally to turn the proceedings into an intramural debate.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heap praise/insults etc on sb
hurl abuse/insults/accusations etc (at sb)
▪ She heard the boys hurling abuse at her, shouting to her to stop, but she shut her ears to them.
▪ There is not much to be achieved by hurling insults.
▪ When I first met her she had been hurling abuse at her daughters-in-law who took no notice whatsoever.
to add insult to injury
▪ People over age 65 who work get fewer benefits and, to add insult to injury , they have to pay more in taxes.
▪ The bank not only refused to refund the money but, to add insult to injury, charged me for the letter telling me so!
▪ Moreover, and to add insult to injury, these off-centre policies are never supported by a clear majority of the electorate.
▪ The, to add insult to injury, it started raining heavily.
trade insults/blows etc
▪ He was more than prepared to trade blows with the former circus act Benichou.
▪ The two camps traded insults, moans and jeers, threatening occasionally to turn the proceedings into an intramural debate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I said something about her new hairstyle and she took it as an insult.
▪ Outside the pub, a drunk was shouting insults at everyone who came past.
▪ People were hurling insults at the players as they walked off the pitch.
▪ She took it as a personal insult that you did not ask her opinion about your book.
▪ The longer he talked, the more insults the crowd yelled at him.
▪ You mustn't wear your shoes inside the temple -- it is a great insult.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adding insult to injury, a double cross awaits our luckless hero in the final stanza.
▪ But the finger stayed down and, to add insult, Sri Lanka's batsmen trotted a cheeky leg bye.
▪ Despite the threats, the insults, the accusations, had she thought he would never physically strike her?
▪ Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level.
▪ In such a case, honest insult, based upon fact, would make us feel more comfortable.
▪ Melinda Mullins -- a presence to remember -- plays the prima donna, Hilary, who tosses off an insult a minute.
▪ Would she scream insults, or perhaps cling on to him for grim death and beg for another chance?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insult

Insult \In*sult"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Insulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Insulting.] [F. insulter, L. insultare, freq. fr. insilire to leap into or upon; pref. in- in, on + salire to leap. See Salient.]

  1. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  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

Insult \In*sult"\, v. i.

  1. To leap or jump.

    Give me thy knife, I will insult on him.
    --Shak.

    Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  2. To behave with insolence; to exult. [Archaic]

    The lion being dead, even hares insult.
    --Daniel.

    An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity.
    --Landor.

Insult

Insult \In"sult\, n. [L. insultus, fr. insilire to leap upon: cf. F. insulte. See Insult, v. t.]

  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. [Obs.]
    --Dryden.

  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.
    --Savage.

  3. (Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.

    Syn: Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See Affront.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
insult

1560s, "triumph over in an arrogant way," from Middle French insulter (14c.) and directly from Latin insultare "to assail, to leap upon" (already used by Cicero in sense of "insult, scoff at, revile"), frequentative of insilire "leap at or upon," from in- "on, at" (see in- (2)) + salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Sense of "to verbally abuse, affront, assail with disrespect" is from 1610s. Related: Insulted; insulting.

insult

c.1600 in the sense of "attack;" 1670s as "an act of insulting," from Middle French insult (14c.) or directly from Late Latin insultus, from insilire (see insult (v.)). To add insult to injury translates Latin injuriae contumeliam addere.

Wiktionary
insult

n. 1 An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude. 2 Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality. 3 (context medicine English) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes. 4 (context obsolete English) The act of leaping on; onset; attack. vb. 1 (context obsolete intransitive English) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against). (16th-19th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone). (from 17th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

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WordNet
insult

  1. n. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse, revilement, contumely, vilification]

  2. a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" [syn: affront]

  3. v. treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" [syn: diss, affront]

Wikipedia
Insult

An insult is an expression, statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An insult may be factual, but at the same time pejorative, such as the word " inbred".

Insult (film)

Insult is a 1932 British drama film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Elizabeth Allan, John Gielgud and Hugh Williams. It is an adaptation of a play by Jean Fabricus. It is a melodrama set in the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.

Insult (medical)

In medical terms, an insult is the cause of some kind of physical or mental injury. For example, a burn on the skin (the injury) may be the result of a thermal, chemical, radioactive, or electrical event (the insult). Likewise sepsis and trauma are examples of foreign insults, and encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, and brain tumors are examples of insults to the brain. Insults may also be categorized as either genetic or environmental.

Insult (disambiguation)

An insult is an expression, statement, or behavior, which is disrespectful or scornful.

Insult may also refer to:

  • The Insult (1996 novel), a crime novel by Rupert Thomson
  • Insult (film), a 1932 British drama film
  • Insult (medical), the cause of mental or physical injury
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Usage examples of "insult".

Maggie had insisted that Miss Abernethy would be mortally insulted by a food basket.

But Congress had neglected to provide any instruction for what he, Adams, was to do, neither recalling him nor assigning him to a new post, which was both mystifying and insulting.

Had Adams refrained from insulting the French, had he chosen more suitable envoys, the country would never have been brought to such a pass.

Then Adams let fly with what to any faithful Hamiltonian was the ultimate insult.

The mere fact that his captors saw no need to restrain him sent an insulting message: Now they considered the Adar of the Solar Navy to be no threat at all.

On hearing from the alcaide the cause of the affray, he acted with becoming dignity, ordering the guards from the room and directing that the renegade should be severely punished for daring to infringe the hospitality of the palace and insult an embassador.

A visit to a dancer, a brute professing to be a nobleman, who insults her in my presence, who wants to kill her, who allows her to be carried off in his very teeth, and whose only opposition is to give me an appointment!

Whilst the numerous spectators, crowned with garlands, perfumed with incense, purified with the blood of victims, and surrounded with the altars and statues of their tutelar deities, resigned themselves to the enjoyment of pleasures, which they considered as an essential part of their religious worship, they recollected that the Christians alone abhorred the gods of mankind, and by their absence and melancholy on these solemn festivals, seemed to insult or to lament the public felicity.

First the Russians are screaming insults at an Imperialist-Amerikan alliance, and then you turn the page and the Amerikans are off on a sacred Gathering against the Imperialist-Russian alliance.

She continued, getting more specific and more insulting, making it quite clear where he stood with her and how far away she wanted him to get from her daughter.

The two men reeled apar They stared at each other, but they no longer traded insults for they needed all their strength for the fight.

There was a thud below him as the baffled cat fell back to earth, and then Tarzan of the Apes, drawing his dinner farther up to the safety of a higher limb, looked down with grinning face into the gleaming yellow eyes of the other wild beast that glared up at him from beneath, and with taunting insults flaunted the tender carcass of his kill in the face of him whom he had cheated of it.

Jai was beginning to realize that in many situations, direct speech between Aristos was considered an insult.

Highton discourse, Kaliga had deliberately given a direct answer, a great insult among Aristos, but he assumed Jai had neither the savvy nor intelligence to know.

Such was the deplorable weakness of government, that the emperor was unable to revenge his murdered friend and his insulted dignity, without stooping to the arts of patience and dissimulation.