Definition of insult

"insult" in the noun sense

1. abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilification

a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

"when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"

"they yelled insults at the visiting team"

2. insult, affront

a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect

"turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

"insult" in the verb sense

1. diss, insult, affront

treat, mention, or speak to rudely

"He insulted her with his rude remarks"

"the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"

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Quotations for insult

Do not insult calamity:
It is a barbarous grossness to lay on
The weight of scorn, where heavy misery
Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. [ Daniel ]

Oppression is more easily borne than insult. [ Junius ]

There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult. [ Ségur ]

To praise princes for virtues which they do not possess, is to insult them with impunity. [ La Roche ]

Some oblige as others insult. One is tempted to ask reparation of them for their services. [ Napoleon I ]

He found shelter among books, which insult not, and studies that ask no questions of a youth's finances. [ Lamb ]

There is nothing so small but that we may honour God by asking his guidance of it, or insult him by taking it into our own hands. [ John Ruskin ]

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]

insult in Scrabble®

The word insult is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters insult:

INSULT
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insult in Words With Friends™

The word insult is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters insult:

UNLIST
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Words containing the sequence insult

Words that start with insult (7 words)

Words with insult in them (5 words)

Words that end with insult (2 words)

Word Growth involving insult

Shorter words in insult

in ins

Longer words containing insult

insulted reinsulted

insulter insulters

insulting insultingly

insulting noninsulting

insulting reinsulting

insults reinsults

reinsult reinsulted

reinsult reinsulting

reinsult reinsults