insult Verb 1 2 3, Past and Past Participle Form Tense of insult V1 V2 V3

insult Verb 1 2 3, Past and Past Participle Form Tense of insult V1 V2 V3

insult

Meanings;

  • Speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse.(transitive verb)
  • A disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or action.(noun)
  • An event or occurrence that causes damage to a tissue or organ.(noun)
Verb(V1)Past Tense(V2)Past Participle(V3)
insultinsultedinsulted
Verb – es(Ves)Verb – ing(Ving)
insultsinsulting
Synonyms

offend, cause offence to, give offence to, affront, abuse, be rude to, call someone names, slight, disparage, discredit, libel, slander, malign, defame, denigrate, cast aspersions on, impugn, slur, revile, calumniate, abusive remark, jibe, affront, slight, snub, barb, slur, backhanded compliment, injury, libel, slander, defamation, abuse, disparagement, depreciation, impugnment, revilement, humiliation, indignity, insolence, rudeness,

Example Sentences with insult
  • Do you actually want to insult me?
  • In spite of being insulted, he managed to keep his temper.
  • Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
  • A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
  • Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I’ve had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked – the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
  • 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.
  • Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
  • 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 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.
  • When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.