insult
verb (used with object)
to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
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"Maggie," she said, "I warn you that if you go to see this abandoned woman you will be insulting Paul and myself before the whole town."
From The Captives by Sir Hugh Walpole