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insults

  • plural
    of insult.
    insult
    verb (used with object)
    to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
  • present tense form
    of insult (3rd person singular).
    insult
    verb (used with object)
    to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.

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Yet when Mr. Wiener, a gay Jewish man, attended a San Francisco Trans March in June, hecklers surrounded and shouted insults at him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Sorkin must have adored that earlier film’s opening scene where Rooney Mara insults a clueless Jesse Eisenberg because he’s written three-dozen takes on it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Conducted this week by correspondent Eric Cortellessa and top editor Sam Jacobs, the 11,000-word interview is in some ways an unremarkable artifact of the president’s usual tics: run-on sentences, bluster, insults, lies.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

He insults a reporter, and the clip runs all day.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

Even as the girls screamed and scampered away, hurling insults back at the boys, Sunjin sat staring at his feet.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh