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Definition of "insulting" []

  • Containing insult, or having the intention of insulting. (adjective)
  • Present participle of insult. (verb)

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Use "insulting" in a sentence
  • "I am not insulting her, I'm not _insulting_ her: I merely order her out of the house."
  • "Parliament's joint human rights committee has called for the removal of the word "insulting" to raise the threshold of the offence, citing a case in which a teenager was arrested for calling Scientology a cult."
  • "Republican leaders on Wednesday accused Jim Messina, campaign manager for President Barack Obama, of repeating what they characterized as insulting and insensitive jokes about the Latino community, after he quoted the last sentence of a column by Washington Post's Dana Millbank on a tweet."