Meanings of gratuitous insult in английском

He could negotiate the distance; but anything else was a gratuitous insult.

Jean could not ride off under the sting of that gratuitous insult.

I see in it only a mark of contempt-a gratuitous insult.

It had been a gratuitous insult, a gloating deprivation which served no useful purpose.

This was rightly regarded as a gratuitous insult to the House of elected representatives.

She told a pale lie-itseemed a gratuitous insult to confess that she had forgotten.

Had he called her aside for this gratuitous insult?

Why did he interfere with a gratuitous insult?

Did you ever know a more gratuitous insult?

This is a gratuitous insult even when applied to the pseudo-Christian or ecclesiastical Jehovite idea of God.

She will never forget this gratuitous insult.

This treatment of the deputies, and, above all, this gratuitous insult, produced among the nobles a storm of indignation.

To point out the moral of this fable would be to offer a gratuitous insult to the acuteness of the reader.

As for Lord Antony and Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, their very hearts seemed to stand still with horror at this gratuitous insult.

Consequently it is a gratuitous insult to a number of self-sacrificing men and women to reject their testimony without a fair hearing.

Your paper should not encourage such a gratuitous insult to the sincerely-held religious views of more than a billion Christians throughout the world.Celtic tiger?