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insult (s) (noun), insults (pl)
1. A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront: When Dana turned her back on Tim, it was a deliberate insult.
2. A rude action intended to offend or to hurt someone: The pay, that the employer offered to the employees for the extra work that they did, was an insult.
3. A remark or action that suggests a low opinion of someone or something: The news article is an insult to the intelligence of the readers.
A man makes a bad slip of the tongue or lapsus linguae

Larry, this is Fattie; I mean, Hattie!


This picture illustrates an insult by someone who has said the wrong thing about another person.

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insult (verb), insults; insulted; insulting
1. To treat or to speak to someone insolently or with contemptuous rudeness: Irving intentionally insulted Mrs. Dawson for giving him a bad grade in the German test.
2. To affect as an affront; to offend or to demean: The book deliberately insulted the religious beliefs of the group.
3. Something that is so useless or contemptible as to be offensive: The new wage offers and retirement changes by the company were insulting the workers who had spent so many years producing quality products that resulted in great profits for the executives.
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insult, exult, salient, resiliency
Origins of the words insult and exult, salient, resiliency.
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(Latin origins of words in English characterized by "jumping, leaping", or "springing forward")