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insulting
Adjective
  • Containing insult, or having the intention of insulting.
Verb
  • present participle of insult
Noun
  • The act of giving insult.
insult
Verb
  • To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone). [from 17th c.] transitive
  • To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against). [16th-19th c.] obsolete, intransitive
  • To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. obsolete
Noun
  • An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
  • Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
  • Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes. medicine
  • The act of leaping on; onset; attack. obsolete