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  1. contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornfuladjective

    expressing extreme contempt

    Synonyms:
    contemptuous, haughty, disdainful, swaggering, overbearing, prideful, imperious, scornful, supercilious, lordly, sniffy

    Antonyms:
    respectful

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  1. insultingadjective

    Synonyms:
    insolent, impudent, impertinent, saucy, abusive, vituperative, ribald, blackguard

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  1. insultingadjective

    Synonyms:
    offensive, contemptuous, contumelious, scurrilous

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  1. Angela Yee:

    I do believe that this whole environment does make it women against women and we're kind of like insulting each other the same way that men insult us, so when we're talking about different bodies, 'Oh, she slept with this person,' 'She's this,' 'She's unattractive,' 'Oh, you got surgery,' this and that — all of those stabs are stabs that men take at women ... and I always feel like women need to be more supportive of each other.

  2. Jessica Vaughan:

    To give Irene Martin an award for valor is insulting to all the prior awardees – the agents and officers who truly displayed valor and risked their lives to save someone else.

  3. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

    Insulting is a crime ... I am sad that it was a child, lately, insulting the president has reached such a point by the opposition that they are becoming a bad example for children.

  4. Leo Murray:

    We're trying to remind the president how unwelcome he is in this country, donald Trump is childish, trivial, insulting. He embodies all of these things. This is an incredibly apt way to welcome him.

  5. Anthony Lorenzo Green:

    It's so, so insulting to racial justice activists that have been bringing attention to Black lives that have been lost, the way they chose to secure the Capitol was to let everybody go -- they let these people back on our streets.


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