insult

/verb in-suhlt; noun in-suhlt/US // verb ɪnˈsʌlt; noun ˈɪn sʌlt //

侮辱,詈骂,辱骂,詈骂声

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
- : to affect as an affront; offend or demean.
- : Archaic. to attack; assault.

v.无主动词 verb

n.名词 noun

1
- : an insolent or contemptuously rude action or remark; affront.
- : something having the effect of an affront: That book is an insult to one's intelligence.
- : Medicine/Medical. an injury or trauma.an agent that inflicts this.

nounhateful communication

Forms: insulted, insulting, insults

Synonyms

That the “short list” was most of the world, or that the term ultimately devolved into an insult, seems unsurprising in retrospect.
It was an insult to the public as well, and a sad example of the state of American democracy five weeks before the election.
It wasn’t the insults or shouting that put the markets into a risk-off mood.
“Streamlining,” wrote Technical Editor Kevin Cameron in a February, 2002, piece about the star of the 2001 Tokyo Show, “would just be an insult to the air-crushing power of the supercharged engine.”
Adding insult to injury, my coworkers and I were offered only a pittance of severance to tide us over through this incredible time of uncertainty.
It was like a constant assault, an almost stupefying catalogue of mindless racial insult and injury.
Insult to injury, its $43 million gross was less than one-fifth of what Ted took in.
The cardinals had such a bad reputation that the very term “cardinal” became an insult in Renaissance Rome.
To add insult to injury, he procured male escorts while traveling for school business.
Watching novelists insult one another is one of the primary pleasures of his biography.
Yet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a Lascar should offer such an overt insult to a Brahmin!

/verb in-suhlt; noun in-suhlt/US // verb ɪnˈsʌlt; noun ˈɪn sʌlt //

侮辱,詈骂,辱骂,詈骂声

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
- : to affect as an affront; offend or demean.
- : Archaic. to attack; assault.

v.无主动词 verb

n.名词 noun

1
- : an insolent or contemptuously rude action or remark; affront.
- : something having the effect of an affront: That book is an insult to one's intelligence.
- : Medicine/Medical. an injury or trauma.an agent that inflicts this.

nounhateful communication

Forms: insulted, insulting, insults

Synonyms

That the “short list” was most of the world, or that the term ultimately devolved into an insult, seems unsurprising in retrospect.
It was an insult to the public as well, and a sad example of the state of American democracy five weeks before the election.
It wasn’t the insults or shouting that put the markets into a risk-off mood.
“Streamlining,” wrote Technical Editor Kevin Cameron in a February, 2002, piece about the star of the 2001 Tokyo Show, “would just be an insult to the air-crushing power of the supercharged engine.”
Adding insult to injury, my coworkers and I were offered only a pittance of severance to tide us over through this incredible time of uncertainty.
It was like a constant assault, an almost stupefying catalogue of mindless racial insult and injury.
Insult to injury, its $43 million gross was less than one-fifth of what Ted took in.
The cardinals had such a bad reputation that the very term “cardinal” became an insult in Renaissance Rome.
To add insult to injury, he procured male escorts while traveling for school business.
Watching novelists insult one another is one of the primary pleasures of his biography.
Yet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a Lascar should offer such an overt insult to a Brahmin!