insulting
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"Insulting honour does more harm than taking money," she adds.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024
Insulting a judge would not be a productive move in a sincere request.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2023
Insulting your children is certainly rude, although Miss Manners notices you conveniently skipped over your own rudeness in taking them where they were not invited.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023
Insulting to Jane, whose life suddenly had to revolve around choosing a guy when she’d long since left those days behind her.
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2019
Insulting new recruits, we would learn, was something that drill instructors were required to do.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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