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Example sentences for "insulting"

Lexicographically close words:
insulators; insulis; insult; insulted; insulter; insultingly; insults; insuper; insuperable; insuperably
  1. The uproar would come in on this side and on that, and they would put insulting questions and make all sorts of calls to me, and I would wait until the noise had subsided, and then get in about five minutes of talk.

  2. Thou canst not mend that shot, Locksley," said the Prince, with an insulting smile.

  3. I am constantly yelled at by them as I pass, and they say very insulting things to me.

  4. I thought it quite sufficient that I did not affect to triumph over him who was evidently my enemy, and that, without insulting him by anything like protection or condescension, I treated him with civility.

  5. Now," he said briefly, "you will apologize to my wife for insulting her.

  6. I challenge you to prove one case of our army insulting a woman," he cried.

  7. It is a shame he should be suffered to go about with his well-looking happy face and tones, insulting us thin race of irritable and irritable-making critics.

  8. And raise insulting Trophies on our ruines; The more our virtues shine in patience.

  9. Perfect silence on his deck; a loud and insulting shout from the enemy!

  10. First, he had not only discouraged his attentions to Katie, but had prohibited them in every possible way, and in the most positive and insulting manner.

  11. The elder lady, on seeing him, stared for an instant, and then abruptly turned her back, thus giving him the cut direct in the most pointed and insulting manner.

  12. With Ashby he had felt under some restraint; but with Lopez there was nothing of the kind, and he ordered him out in the most insulting manner.

  13. The result of that hideous mockery of a trial was that the accused was pronounced guilty of returning home late in a condition of extreme intoxication, and of grossly insulting and even menacing his officer.

  14. Is it to me that this insulting allusion applies?

  15. For apart from your immediately giving me an insulting reply, calling me a vain conceited fool, it would, if it became known, make me appear in a most curious light.

  16. He secluded himself with disdainful pride; the sight of a new face turned his distant and cold; people in society he treated with insulting indifference.

  17. On the walls were the most preposterous and insulting notices regulating the conduct of the guests, and at ten o'clock the lights were put out, and nothing remained but bed.

  18. You must first take that insulting umbrella out of my dominions.

  19. They were coldly received; the cup of honour was not offered to them; and they had to walk, according to their own account, in the midst of the insulting cries of the people.

  20. And John Zehender, member of the Great Council, to show the little value he set on such a place of worship, entered it riding on an ass, insulting and cursing the Reform.

  21. Farel returned to the charge a third time, and Natalis, fearing to reply in person, commissioned his secretary, who forwarded a letter to Farel full of insulting language.

  22. Berkeley proved himself a tiger, as he had proved himself a ruffian in insulting Mrs. Cheeseman.

  23. He was informed that Giles Peram was the favorite of the governor and Hugh Price, and to insult him would be insulting those high functionaries.

  24. They are written with severity and sometimes an insulting tone towards the great poet, passing over generally the most beautiful verses, though he sometimes bestows praise.

  25. In a short time the prisoners arrived at Cairo, mounted on camels, and pursued by the insulting clamours of the multitude.

  26. Constantinople, threatened by formidable enemies, beheld from its towers the standards of the Greeks of Nice and of the barbarians of Mount Hemus, floating near its walls and insulting its majesty.

  27. The Greeks assembled in the ramparts remained motionless; some answered by insulting language, others maintained a sullen silence.

  28. Misery, like inevitable death, effaced all distinctions, and confounded all ranks; the dregs of the people completed the spoliation of the fugitives, at the same time insulting their misfortunes.

  29. Further, the Convention ought to have seen through and thwarted the attempt of Lebrun to regain popularity by insulting Pitt in the report of 18th December.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insulting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abusive; arrogant; atrocious; audacious; backhanded; bumptious; cold; contemptuous; contumelious; cool; degrading; derogatory; disdainful; familiar; forward; foul; humiliating; injurious; insolent; insulting; irreverent; obtrusive; offensive; outrageous; overweening; personal; presumptuous; rude; scurrilous; unflattering; unspeakable; uppity; vituperative