Definition of Insulting

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Definition of Insulting
	Insulting of Insult Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. Related Definitions: Abuse, Affront, As, By, Characterized, Containing, Insult, Insulting, Language, Of, Or, Tending, To, Treatment

Insulting Quotations

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
e. e. cummings

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'
Janeane Garofalo

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
Dustin Hoffman

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
Edward Bond

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.
Robert Scheer

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.
Jason Schwartzman

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
Anthony Holden

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.
Helen Garner

Insulting Translations

insulting in French is agonissant, insultant
insulting in German is beschimpfend
insulting in Spanish is insultante

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