insult
/ˈɪnsʌlt/ nom B2En français : insulte
- 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.
Pluriel insults
Dans la bibliothèque
“You insult me by talking such nonsense!”
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.
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.
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