insult
/ˈɪnsʌlt/ noun B2- Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
- Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality). · The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
- Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
Plural insults
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Escaping, the Fly said mockingly, “You who have wished to revenge, even with death, the Prick of a tiny insect, see what you have done to yourself to add insult to injury?” The Bald Man replied, “I can easily make peace with myself, because I know there was no intention to hurt.
“I won’t insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc-and-compass breastpin.”
The only cheerful thing about it was Jerry Buote, the hired boy, and Marilla resented his cheerfulness as a personal insult.
It was bad enough to be singled out for punishment from among a dozen equally guilty ones; it was worse still to be sent to sit with a boy, but that that boy should be Gilbert Blythe was heaping insult on injury to a degree utterly unbearable.
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