Insult
The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
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.
To leap or jump.
To behave with insolence; to exult.
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Insult Quotations
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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.
Stephen Fry
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
Insult Translations
insult in Dutch is krenken, beledigen, affronteren
insult in French is insultez, injurier, insultons, insulte, offenser
insult in German is beleidigen, beleidigen, beschimpfe
insult in Italian is affronto, oltraggiare, oltraggiare
insult in Latin is insulto, vituperium
insult in Portuguese is insulto
insult in Spanish is injuria, insulto, amenguar, insultar, injuriar
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