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Insult in sentence

550 examples of Insult in a sentence

[This insult to father's stones?] (Laughter) And then comes the ending, which is my favorite part of the whole thing.
So the message I want to leave you with is that if you are looking at men in our society who are the boss of, let's say, a family or a business or Washington or whatever, you call them alpha male, you should not insult chimpanzees by using the wrong label.
You could not get a worse insult, and that from Charles Darwin.
And as I walked away from that, I had this crystallization, probably from the blow, because it was an insult in a way.
He didn't like Al Zheimers, because he thought it would insult people with Alzheimer's.
For most Western young women of today, being called a feminist is an insult.
My work as a woman photographer was considered a serious insult to local traditions, and created a lasting stigma for me and my family.
Being a coward was not an insult.
Now, in 2009, Michelle Obama was the victim of a racist campaign, where people set out to insult her through her search results.
Well, let's break it down to the insult.
Biting your thumb today may not seem like a big deal, but Sampson says it is an insult to them.
People use it as a casual term or an insult.
As my fellow athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens wrote in an open letter to a political pundit who used the r-word as an insult, "Come join us someday at Special Olympics.
Operating over vast swaths of time, myriad geological processes offer every possible insult to the rocks of ages.
Now, I don't think he meant to insult the rest of science, although he was from New Zealand, so it's possible.
Let us remember that distinction, so often forgotten by internet users, between criticism and insult.
I can hear 100 compliments and a single insult, and what do I remember?
The insult.
So the mere fact of your disagreeing with me is implicitly an insult not only to my views, but to my intelligence, too.
And of course, those Catholic opponents clutched their pearls and called for civility then, too, but all the while, they gave as good as they got with traditional slurs like "heretic," and, worst of all, "Protestant," which began in the 16th century as an insult.
It warns us of indignity, threat, insult and harm.
He lost his contract with the 49ers, he was blackballed by every NFL owner, he was criticized by millions and even the president of the United States decided to insult him.
If you call people names, if you label them, if you insult them, they are not inclined to listen to you.
He said, "I think it's an insult to history."
And I wrote, insult to history.
Insult to history.
That's also an insult to history.
It's an insult to the basic laws of nature and of biology.
Rape is not just an attack on a bunch of physical molecules, it's an attempt to insult another person's soul.
Though meant as an insult, dogs were actually a good symbol for his philosophy— they’re happy creatures, free from abstractions like wealth or reputation.
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