insulter
Americannoun
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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
They were not the men to offer both cheeks to the insulter.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
“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
But he drifted into the group of Hebrews and stood between the woman of Israel and her insulters.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth
He glared ferociously around, trying to pick out one of his insulters.
From The U. P. Trail by Grey, Zane
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