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Meanings of direct insult in English

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Usage of direct insult in English
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Even this direct insult did not make him lose his temper.
Shallow Soil
2
To be called a block of wood is, to the red man, a direct insult.
The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma
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The brothers were roused to anger, considering this attack as a direct insult and a defiance.
Original Short Stories — Volume 04
4
Coffee, of course, is never forgotten, and it would be a direct insult to refuse it.
The Boer in Peace and War
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It's simply a direct insult to the sun.
Our Casualty, and Other Stories / 1918
6
I never pass by a direct insult.
Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them
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They considered Austria's railway scheme to Salonika as a direct insult "which we shall never permit."
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
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His gesture was "a direct insult to all those who lost their lives in the Holocaust."
The Guardian
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A way to do it, fast, without attracting attention, suffering minimal casualties, without offering direct insult to the Emperor.
Surrender to the will of the night
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Whenever one nation interferes with the internal concerns of another, it is a direct insult to all other nations.
Select Speeches of Kossuth
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This, after Conway's conduct, was a direct insult to Washington, and marks the highest point attained by his opponents.
George Washington, Volume I
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Casey could not see what there was to grin about, and he took it as a direct insult to himself.
The Trail of the White Mule
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The health and the daily swing of the world in its arc of space seemed to her like a direct insult.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
14
China says Liu is a criminal and that giving him the Nobel was a direct insult to the Chinese legal system.
Reuters
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He did not know whether to accept this reply as a direct insult or to take it as a belief in his veracity.
Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the Jame...
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To call him Dutchy was a direct insult, and the Happy Family never did it to his face-unlessthe provocation was very great.
The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
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Direct insult across language varieties
United Kingdom
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