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insult

verb /ɪnˈsʌlt

/ [with object]

Speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse: you’re insulting the woman I love...

They were also said to be regularly insulted and physically abused by the owners.
Carl is insulted, humiliated and ignored on a regular basis and yet keeps coming back for more.
So is there any hope that the broadcasters will stop insulting our intelligence?

Synonyms

offend, give/cause offence to, affront, abuse, be rude to, call someone names, slight, disparage, discredit, libel, slander, malign, defame, denigrate, cast aspersions on, impugn, slur, revile, calumniate;

hurt, hurt someone's feelings, mortify, humiliate, wound;

snub, rebuff, spurn, shun, treat disrespectfully, ignore, cut dead, give someone the cold-shoulder, turn one's back on

informal bad-mouth

British informal slag off

North American informal trash-talk

Australian informal sledge

rare asperse, derogate, miscall

abusive, rude, vulgar, offensive, wounding, mortifying, humiliating, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, depreciating, deprecatory, disrespectful, denigratory, uncomplimentary, pejorative, vituperative;

disdainful, derisive, scornful, contemptuous;

defamatory, slanderous, libellous, scurrilous, blasphemous, discrediting

informal bitchy, catty

archaic contumelious

noun /ˈɪnsʌlt

1A disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or act: he hurled insults at us he saw the book as a deliberate insult to the Church...

You know your comment about there being more jobs in America then ever is a real stupid remark and an insult to hourly workers of America.
My remarks were not an insult to decent youths or their parents.
With respect, this remark is an insult to the intelligence of your readers.

Synonyms

abusive remark, jibe, affront, slight, snub, barb, slur, backhanded compliment, injury, libel, slander, defamation, abuse, disparagement, depreciation, impugnment, revilement, humiliation, indignity, insolence, rudeness;

aspersions

informal dig, put-down, slap in the face, kick in the teeth

Australian informal sledge

archaic contumely

1.1A thing so worthless or contemptible as to be offensive: the present offer is an absolute insult...

This Minister has introduced a bill that is an absolute insult to the cause he should be serving.
He said the charity's grant was an insult to his mother, who had tirelessly raised funds for it before her death.
The distraught parents of Adele, who died last year, said the fine was an ‘absolute insult to us and to the memory of Adele’.

2 Medicine An event which causes damage to a tissue or organ: the movement of the bone causes a severe tissue insult...

For this reason, various environmental insults that damage intestinal tissues also lower the levels of lactase.
Although a second traumatic event may serve as abreaction or a cure for some dissociative amnesic states, this seems unlikely in the event of two severe neurological insults.
Tissues exposed to one insult can develop tolerance to a subsequent injury.

Phrases

add insult to injury

insult someone's intelligence

an insult to someone's intelligence

Derivatives

insulter

noun ...

Agreed, and I must include myself in that category of petty insulters.
The experience has provided the company with a quick lesson in the tricky world of chasing online insulters.
If you deflect it with humor, you allow the insulter to see how juvenile such commentary can be.

Origin

Mid 16th century (as a verb in the sense 'exult, act arrogantly'): from Latin insultare 'jump or trample on', from in- 'on' + saltare, from salire 'to leap'. The noun (in the early 17th century denoting an attack) is from French insulte or ecclesiastical Latin insultus. The main current senses date from the 17th century, the medical use dating from the early 20th century.

An insult was originally an attack or assault, especially a military one. Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) in his poem Marmion wrote: ‘Many a rude tower and rampart there / Repelled the insult of the air.’ The word goes back to Latin insultare ‘to jump or leap upon’. The phrase to add insult to injury comes from the 1748 play The Foundling by Edmund Moore.

单词	insult
释义	insult verb /ɪnˈsʌlt / [with object] Speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse: you’re insulting the woman I love... They were also said to be regularly insulted and physically abused by the owners. Carl is insulted, humiliated and ignored on a regular basis and yet keeps coming back for more. So is there any hope that the broadcasters will stop insulting our intelligence? Synonyms offend, give/cause offence to, affront, abuse, be rude to, call someone names, slight, disparage, discredit, libel, slander, malign, defame, denigrate, cast aspersions on, impugn, slur, revile, calumniate; hurt, hurt someone's feelings, mortify, humiliate, wound; snub, rebuff, spurn, shun, treat disrespectfully, ignore, cut dead, give someone the cold-shoulder, turn one's back on informal bad-mouth British informal slag off North American informal trash-talk Australian informal sledge rare asperse, derogate, miscall abusive, rude, vulgar, offensive, wounding, mortifying, humiliating, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, depreciating, deprecatory, disrespectful, denigratory, uncomplimentary, pejorative, vituperative; disdainful, derisive, scornful, contemptuous; defamatory, slanderous, libellous, scurrilous, blasphemous, discrediting informal bitchy, catty archaic contumelious noun /ˈɪnsʌlt / 1A disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or act: he hurled insults at us he saw the book as a deliberate insult to* the Church... You know your comment about there being more jobs in America then ever is a real stupid remark and an insult to hourly workers of America. My remarks were not an insult to decent youths or their parents. With respect, this remark is an insult to the intelligence of your readers. Synonyms abusive remark, jibe, affront, slight, snub, barb, slur, backhanded compliment, injury, libel, slander, defamation, abuse, disparagement, depreciation, impugnment, revilement, humiliation, indignity, insolence, rudeness; aspersions informal* dig, put-down, slap in the face, kick in the teeth Australian informal sledge archaic contumely 1.1A thing so worthless or contemptible as to be offensive: the present offer is an absolute insult... This Minister has introduced a bill that is an absolute insult to the cause he should be serving. He said the charity's grant was an insult to his mother, who had tirelessly raised funds for it before her death. The distraught parents of Adele, who died last year, said the fine was an ‘absolute insult to us and to the memory of Adele’. 2 Medicine An event which causes damage to a tissue or organ: the movement of the bone causes a severe tissue insult... For this reason, various environmental insults that damage intestinal tissues also lower the levels of lactase. Although a second traumatic event may serve as abreaction or a cure for some dissociative amnesic states, this seems unlikely in the event of two severe neurological insults. Tissues exposed to one insult can develop tolerance to a subsequent injury. Phrases add insult to injury insult someone's intelligence an insult to someone's intelligence Derivatives insulter noun ... Agreed, and I must include myself in that category of petty insulters. The experience has provided the company with a quick lesson in the tricky world of chasing online insulters. If you deflect it with humor, you allow the insulter to see how juvenile such commentary can be. Origin Mid 16th century (as a verb in the sense 'exult, act arrogantly'): from Latin insultare 'jump or trample on', from in- 'on' + saltare, from salire 'to leap'. The noun (in the early 17th century denoting an attack) is from French insulte or ecclesiastical Latin insultus. The main current senses date from the 17th century, the medical use dating from the early 20th century. An insult was originally an attack or assault, especially a military one. Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) in his poem Marmion wrote: ‘Many a rude tower and rampart there / Repelled the insult of the air.’ The word goes back to Latin insultare ‘to jump or leap upon’. The phrase to add insult to injury comes from the 1748 play The Foundling by Edmund Moore. Rhymes consult, cult, exult, indult, penult, result, ult
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