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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
insult .
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Examples
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Nancy Pelosi and her big mouth again insulted the people and the DNC and this healthcare plan will pay the price.
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In a December 2008 e-mail to a recipient whose name was redacted, he laid out what he felt he needed: "Under the statute, a black poll watcher for you being abused or insulted is critical, and thus far, I don't have one."
Dispute over New Black Panthers case causes deep divisions Jerry Markon 2010
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In a December 2008 e-mail to a recipient whose name was redacted, he laid out what he felt he needed: "Under the statute, a black poll-watcher for you being abused or insulted is critical, and thus far, I don't have one."
Black Panther case reveals schism Jerry Markon 2010
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I actually miss old SamJoe although I remain insulted by the premise that meathead represented “average” …
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The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted, or in which they have the right to call on the law to defend them against being offended or insulted, is absurd.
Gags Gagged Newmania 2007
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He met Brand the next day and again insulted him, "telling him to the Divil I bob you."
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Because of the Italian element, Mr. Nicholson felt that the expression insulted some of his Italian constituents.
Where an idiomatic expression is misunderstood by a non-native speaker Oleg Kuzin 2006
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Martin insulted Thomas for several minutes after the shootaround.
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Because of the Italian element, Mr. Nicholson felt that the expression insulted some of his Italian constituents.
Archive 2006-06-01 Oleg Kuzin 2006
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As I did so the funeral bell rang out, and it came to me, as though the One above had spoken, that peace would be slain and His name insulted by all of you -- by all of you, Catholic and Protestant.
The World for Sale, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897
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