insulting

  • 11insulting — adjective once you send that insulting message, there s no taking it back Syn: abusive, rude, offensive, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, deprecatory, disrespectful, uncomplimentary, pejorative; disdainful, derisive, scornful, contemptuous;… …

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  • 12insulting — UK [ɪnˈsʌltɪŋ] / US adjective offensive I found his comments deeply insulting. Derived word: insultingly adverb …

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  • 13insulting adj — On a peanut stand: If our peanuts were any fresher, they d be insulting …

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  • 14insulting — insultingly, adv. /in sul ting/, adj. giving or causing insult; characterized by affronting rudeness, insolence, etc. [1585 95; INSULT + ING2] Syn. rude, discourteous, abusive, derogatory, offensive, nasty. * * * …

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  • 15insulting — Synonyms and related words: abusive, arrogant, atrocious, audacious, backhand, backhanded, bumptious, calumnious, cold, contumelious, cool, degrading, disdainful, familiar, forward, hubristic, humiliating, insolent, left handed, obtrusive,… …

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  • 16insulting — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. abusive, offensive, disparaging, derogatory, hurtful, debasing, degrading, affronting, outrageous, humiliating, scoffing, derisive, contemptuous, disrespectful, insolent, scurrilous, nasty, dyslogistic; see also… …

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  • 17insulting — in sult·ing || ɪn sÊŒltɪŋ adj. offensive, rude and contemptuous in·sult || ɪn sÊŒlt n. affront, offense, rude remark or action v. speak or act in a rude or contemptuous manner, offend, affront …

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  • 18insulting — a. Insolent, abusive, vituperative, grossly abusive, contumelious …

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  • 19insulting — adj 1. offensive, slighting, Archaic. af frontive, disobliging, outrageous; disparaging, denouncing, derogatory, denunciable, discreditable, depreciating; disdainful, contemptuous, contemning, contemni ble, supercilious, contumelious, scouting,… …

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  • 20insulting — adjective Syn: abusive, rude, offensive, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, deprecating, disrespectful, uncomplimentary; informal bitchy, catty …

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