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Insulting definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INSULT'ING, ppr. Treating with insolence or contempt.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Insult In*sult", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Insulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Insulting.] [F. insulter, L. insultare, freq. fr. insilire to leap into or upon; pref. in- in, on + salire to leap. See Salient.] 1. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Insulting In*sult"ing, a. Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv. Syn: Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is insulting is rude or offensive. The article was insulting to the families of British citizens... = offensive ADJ: oft ADJ to n • insultingly Anthony laughed loudly and insultingly... ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Insolent, abusive, vituperative, grossly abusive, contumelious.

Moby Thesaurus

abusive, arrogant, atrocious, audacious, backhand, backhanded, bumptious, calumnious, cold, contumelious, cool, degrading, disdainful, familiar, forward, hubristic, humiliating, insolent, left-handed, obtrusive, offensive, outrageous, overpresumptuous, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, pushy, scurrile, scurrilous, unspeakable, uppish, uppity