† insultmentn.
Obsolete. rare.
The action of insulting; contemptuous triumph; insult.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boasting scornfully or insultingly
insultationa1513
insultmenta1616
insulting1628
signifying1929
smack talking1990
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. v. 141 He on the ground, my speech of insultment [printed insulment; corrected in 1632] ended on his dead bodie. View more context for this quotation
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n.a1616- not to care beans
- not to care three skips of a louse
- not to care twopence
- not to care which end goes forward
- not to care, give, be worth, , a tinker's
- not to care, give, be worth, , a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn
- not to care, give, be worth, etc, a tinker's
- not to care, give, be worth, etc, a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn
- not to careor matter a farthing
- not to choose
- not to count a thing at a cress
- not to count at a cress
- not to do something for the world
- not to etc a mite
- not to etc a rap
- not to etc a word of
- not to get a look-in
- not to get a lookin
- not to get a person anywhere
- not to get any change out of
- not to get any change out of a person
- not to get any change out of a situation
- not to get anywhere
- not to get much change out of
- not to get much change out of a person