insult
verb (used with object)
to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
insultable
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a word derived from
insult.
Example Sentences
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The devout might wince at the seeming irreverence, but everything is insultable in Allen's anything-for-a-one-liner aesthetic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet there is one way in which you may possibly be insultable.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
Let us rather be insulted, whilst we are insultable.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
