0 past simple and past participle of insult
1 to say or do something to someone that is rude or offensive:
He insulted people who could be guaranteed to retaliate hurtfully.
And though not usually insulted in words, they were given a sense of permanent shame : their physical stigmata gave them an ineradicable social stigma.
We detest the practice and feel ourselves insulted whenever a book of the trap kind is put into our hands.
In fact, the crowds gathered around the polls often insulted voters who appeared to be supporting the opposing party.
This was the consequence of transmitting the defence of their insulted privileges into the hands of an attorney general.
Most offensively, female artists are insulted as women.
Its distinguishing feature is the fact that if a man is insulted and his honour questioned, then his honour is diminished or destroyed unless he responds with an appropriate counterattack.
Many would be positively insulted.
