0 past simple and past participle of insult --
1 to say or do something to someone that is rude or offensive: --
I think that their intelligence would be insulted and the prestige of those who use such an antiquated and out-of-date instrument would be lowered.
I am sometimes insulted by persons saying to me that our countrymen are so soft they would not undertake this pioneering work.
If the speaker really believes that he has the power to make direct requests of the addressee, then he is more likely to be insulted by a refusal.
Sometimes we got tired of being insulted.
You, the sweetheart, insulted the dean.
Baier's case is one in which an agent is insulted, rather than manipulated.
During his own day he was regularly derided for various reasons by, among others, two rhetorically brilliant, highly partisan writers who openly insulted males on a fairly regular basis.
Many would be positively insulted.
