If you insult someone, you have offended that person either intentionally or unintentionally through your actions or words. You might insult your host if you refuse to try the dessert he made from pasta, nuts, and chocolate sauce.
The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
Noun
a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"
Noun
a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team"
Verb
treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"
v. t.
The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
v. t.
Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act;
an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
v. t.
To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
v. t.
To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt,
by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or
to sneer at him, is to insult him.
v. i.
To leap or jump.
v. i.
To behave with insolence; to exult.
Insult
The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief.
Insult
Insult
Give me thy knife, I will insult on him.
Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king.2.
The lion being dead, even hares insult.
An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity.
The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
To leap or jump.
Usage Examples
I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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Other Usage ExamplesMillions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
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