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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



... treated her badly. He had not parted her from the old servant under whose escort she had travelled. Perhaps he felt he would have other opportunities of avenging this insult to himself; perhaps there was something in the light in Joan's eyes and in the way in which she sometimes placed her hand upon the hilt of the dagger in her belt which warned him not to try her too far. Joan ...
— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green
... river trail near here," the girl went on firmly, scorning to pay any attention to this insult; "when we heard shooting. I stayed with the wagon while grandfather went to investigate. We found two men—Tom Taggart and his son Neal—concealed in the cottonwood, trying to shoot your father, who was in the house. Your father had been wounded in the shoulder and it ...
— The Boss of the Lazy Y • Charles Alden Seltzer
... singly at least from five to ten thousand dollars, at present price of the feathers, not counting the cost of manufacturing; by a reckless disregard of the proprieties of ordinary intercourse, even between civilized and savage man, and a wanton insult to what he reasonably may have supposed to have been the religious sentiments of his hosts." This is up to the mark of a criminal lawyer retained to prove by native testimony that Captain James Cook was not ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
... pistachios. After dinner we reported to Omar Beg the conduct of his sous-officier, and he said that we had done very well, and he was glad of the opportunity of making an example of him, for he was a bad lot; and a Turkish soldier when he is bad is bad indeed. He had committed a gross insult against us, and it is always best in the East to resent an insult ...
— The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II • Isabel Lady Burton & W. H. Wilkins
... (21st), he was replying to a letter from an acquaintance of former days residing at Wilmington. In this reply he spoke out more vigorously his own sentiments: "The idea of war to perpetuate slavery in the year 1861 was an insult to the intelligence of the age." War being begun by the South, "it was absurd to suppose we were bound to respect that kind of property or any kind of property. . . . The result is nearly accomplished, and is what you might ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox


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