(Used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.
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Examples for "insulting "
Examples for "insulting "
1 Madam, - Many people make insulting remarks about particular groups of people.
2 And so I would wonder why this particular answer was so insulting .
3 I think it's frankly insulting that question would be asked, she said.
4 Photo: SUPPLIED All three men had denied insulting religion during their trial.
5 Not only was this turn of events insulting , it's probably also illegal.
1 Four of those cases involved domestic violence victims fleeing their abusive partners.
2 Others also recommend having a code word to signal an abusive situation.
3 She described daily abusive text messages, and threatening and frightening phone calls.
4 Schools were closed, and children were sometimes quarantined with abusive family members.
5 Violent and abusive language, or language which describes the reality of abortion?
1 We present clear examples of the protective and injurious nature of NO.
2 Conclusions: More rational psychopharmacological treatments for severe self - injurious behaviour may become available.
3 Yes; the injudicious use of a blower is injurious to any boiler.
4 The impossibility of forming intimacies calculated to be injurious in after life.
5 This is depressing to the defender and is injurious to his morale.
1 There'd been nothing derogatory or recent under either personal or business files.
2 Asked if that was not derogatory language, he said it was not.
3 There is nothing derogatory to her in what you say-quite the reverse.
4 No truth can be derogatory to the presumed fountain of all truth.
5 The flock, with shrill, derogatory remarks, flew in an airline straight away.
1 Which puts the new Octavia Scout in somewhat of an invidious position.
2 His only approach to invidious comment was in regard to the terrapin.
3 There can be no invidious rivalry between the dead and the living.
4 The arrival of a visitor put an end to the invidious comparison.
5 They diffused the most invidious reports against Oxford and secretary St. John.
1 It is defamatory and I will leave it at that, he said.
2 Lawyers for Sinn Féin contended that neither statement contained any defamatory content.
3 The movie contains many false and defamatory statements and scenes about me.
4 I mean, it's pretty defamatory stuff, Mr McGowan told reporters on Wednesday.
5 His attorney Marty Singer has dismissed the allegations as discredited and defamatory .
1 Her considerable sources, named and anonymous, do offer scurrilous details and minutiae.
2 I know also who is the author of the two scurrilous paragraphs.
3 It was a scurrilous anti-Catholic leaflet, grossly personal and savouring of atheism.
4 It has gone the length of scurrilous songs about our worthy gentleman.
5 Knowles scowled at him; he had no fancy for Pike's scurrilous gossip.
1 Comments favorable and unfavorable, some of them libelous , appeared in print.
2 It isn't libelous if it's done as a joke without malice.
3 In other locales, perfectly accurate statements can be considered libelous .
4 Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous .
5 I wonder the curse of Gomorrah does not descend on this gossiping, libelous community.
1 The captain stood at the stern addressing the bow with opprobrious language.
2 He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue.
3 I am no impostor, my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
4 Every tongue was engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets!
5 But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?
6 And he became exceedingly opprobrious , and uttered contempt of the name of Feverel.
7 There was no opprobrious or harsh epithet he did not use.
8 Now that would be opprobrious . ' Stephen gives a bark of laughter.
9 At this opprobrious epithet Traverse, with a flushed face, started to his feet.
10 Whenever they mentioned Makola's name they always added to it an opprobrious epithet.
11 She kept on, with hysterical violence, shouting at him an opprobrious , filthy epithet.
12 Do you remember all those opprobrious words and thoughts and actions?
13 Here in this dark, opprobrious den of shame: this is its own punishment.
14 It is often applied to quarrelsome, overpaid footballers and is by no means opprobrious .
15 And Dudhope-even he the representative of Graham of opprobrious memory-disappeared
16 In this confession foreigners are designated by the opprobrious epithet of 'little'-thatis, contemptible-'demons.
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