insulting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsʌltɪŋ/

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Adjective

insulting (comparative more insulting, superlative most insulting)

1. Containing insult, or having the intention of insulting.

   He received an insulting letter.

   • 2023 November 28, Jill Filipovic, “Opinion: Elon Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and insulting”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization.

Derived terms

• insultingly

Translations

containing insult, or having the intention of insulting

• Catalan: insultant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 侮辱的 (zh) (wǔrǔ de, wūrǔ de)

• Danish: fornærmende, fornærmelig
• Dutch: beledigend (nl)
• Finnish: loukkaava (fi)
• French: outrageant (fr), injurieux (fr), insultant (fr)
• German: beleidigend (de)
• Greek: προσβλητικός (el) (prosvlitikós)
• Hungarian: sértő (hu)
• Indonesian: menghina (id)
• Italian: adontoso (it), oltraggiatore (it), ingiurioso (it), oltraggioso, offensivo (it), contumelioso m, insultante (it)
• Japanese: 蔑ろな (ja) (ないがしろな, naigashiro na), 侮辱的な (ぶじょくてきな, bujokuteki na)
• Latin: insultans, iniuriosus
• Maori: hākiki
• Plautdietsch: beleidjent
• Polish: obraźliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: insultante (pt), injurioso (pt), injuriante
• Romanian: insultător (ro), ofensator (ro)
• Russian: оскорби́тельный (ru) (oskorbítelʹnyj)
• Sanskrit: अकीर्तिकर (sa) (akīrtikara) (akīrtikara)
• Serbo-Croatian: увредљив / uvredljiv
• Spanish: afrentoso (es), insultante (es)
• Swedish: förolämpande (sv)
• Ukrainian: обра́зливий (obrázlyvyj)

Verb

insulting

1. present participle and gerund of insult

Noun

insulting (plural insultings)

1. The act of giving insult.
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of a Peacable Temper and Carriage”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     grievous reproaches, and scornful insultings over him in his affliction

   • 1689, Thomas Smith, diary:

     Many were the outragings and insultings of the Indians upon the English while Sir Edmund Andros was Governor.

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