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Synonyms for insulting
in·sult·ing
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
insulting
Synonyms:
awkward, bluff, blunt, boorish, brusk, clownish, coarse, discourteous, ill-behaved, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insolent, raw, rude, rustic, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, untaught, untutoredAntonyms:
accomplished, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, elegant, genteel, gracious, obliging, polished, polite, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered
Princeton's WordNet
contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornfuladjective
expressing extreme contempt
Synonyms:
contemptuous, haughty, disdainful, swaggering, overbearing, prideful, imperious, scornful, supercilious, lordly, sniffyAntonyms:
respectful
Dictionary of English Synonymes
insultingadjective
Synonyms:
insolent, impudent, impertinent, saucy, abusive, vituperative, ribald, blackguard
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
insultingadjective
Synonyms:
offensive, contemptuous, contumelious, scurrilous
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "insulting":
offensive, insult, insulted, abusive, desecrating, degrading, humiliating, derogatory, outrageous, demeaning
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3079 | raw | |
#6274 | offensive | |
#11372 | blunt | |
#11750 | bluff | |
#12199 | rude | |
#13365 | abusive | |
#14475 | coarse | |
#15519 | rustic | |
#17155 | outrageous | |
#17452 | awkward | |
#17766 | insult | |
#25644 | insulting | |
#26371 | degrading | |
#34738 | humiliating | |
#38251 | insulted | |
#42627 | derogatory | |
#53063 | haughty | |
#62854 | demeaning | |
#64264 | overbearing | |
#70480 | insolent | |
#71724 | impolite | |
#76304 | contemptuous | |
#84515 | uncivil | |
#88982 | imperious | |
#98549 | uncouth | |
#100005 | scornful | |
#101268 | disdainful | |
#103529 | impudent | |
#109233 | impertinent | |
#109339 | unpolished | |
#117069 | boorish | |
#121548 | swaggering | |
#128829 | lordly | |
#149426 | prideful | |
#166887 | supercilious | |
#172837 | discourteous | |
#187854 | desecrating | |
#201184 | untutored | |
#237471 | clownish | |
#238463 | sniffy | |
#261906 | untaught |
How to use insulting in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Translations for insulting
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- insultantCatalan, Valencian
- beleidigendGerman
- προσβλητικόςGreek
- afrentosoSpanish
- loukkaavaFinnish
- outrageantFrench
- oltraggiatore, adontoso, oltraggioso, ingiurioso, offensivoItalian
- 侮辱的, 蔑ろJapanese
- iniuriosus, insultansLatin
- obraźliwyPolish
- insultante, injurioso, injuriantePortuguese
- insultător, ofensatorRomanian
- оскорби́тельныйRussian
- förolämpandeSwedish
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