insulter
Americannoun
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insulters
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“I feel it, it’s an instinct,” the future insulter in chief told Mark Leibovich of the New York Times three years ago.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2019
It may be that the Nobel was never worthy of this iconoclastic satirist, wily cultural historian, sublime fictive ranter, comic tragedian, outraged citizen, contradictory wit, epic insulter and monumental imaginer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2018
A straightforward insulter would call Brian Williams’ show boring.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2016
He wants to be an equal-opportunity insulter, which is impossible because there is no genuine equality, either on-screen or off.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
Instantly he wheeled, partly reared and struck at his insulter, but he was so afraid of hitting him that the blow was awkward and missed the Shawanoe by a goodly distance.
From Deerfoot in The Mountains by John Steeple Davis
“And I think if you look at American history, that’s how we get things done. It’s not the whiners and the complainers and the insulters who move our country forward,” she said to applause.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2016
The cast of “Shallow News in Depth,” which is also hosted by Nattapong Tiendee, an electrical engineer by training, say they are equal-opportunity insulters.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2014
The trouble is that these insulters leave no heirs.
From Time Magazine Archive
He, whose generous hands flung pardons like gems to all his insulters.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
Yes, they were ready in good time to play the anvil chorus on the heads of the lively gang of insulters.
From Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field by Harlan Page Halsey
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