insults

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• 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!

• He passed to and fro in the city without the least insult being offered him by any Spaniard.

• Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.

• He was determined to have it, if only because no greater insult can be inflicted on a Mohammedan than to bare his head.