insult
/ɪnˈsʌlt/ verb B2- To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
He/she/it insults · Past insulted · Past participle insulted · -ing form insulting
Verb forms
- Base form
- insult
- He/she/it
- insults
- Past
- insulted
- Past participle
- insulted
- -ing form
- insulting
From the library
But you can’t expect me to visit here again in a hurry, if I’m liable to be flown at and insulted in such a fashion.
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.
I’ve been insulted.”
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