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Examples
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Please, if we are to insult, let us call a turd a turd, and not a piss stain, lest we not offend the insultee.
Think Progress » Boehner Claims Student Loan Reform Will ‘Eliminate Every Bank In The Country’ 2010
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Incidentally, it really confuses a person making insults if the insultee says "thank you" for each insult!
seanan_mcguire: Bear caves and briar patches. seanan_mcguire 2009
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Too petty, and the insulter is harmed more than the insultee.
In Praise of Political Insults Joseph Tartakovsky 2008
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In this way it is an evolution of the still-sometimes-invoked; "Ya think?" which CLEARLY lays the onus on the insultee to question their very own thought process.
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As a gay “insultee” in this case, I could not separate my emotions from what was an extremely hatred filled comment associating not only “gay lips” but “spit-covered-gay-lips” to something as negative as the subject we are so against in this very thread.
Think Progress » White House ‘Cuts And Runs’ on ‘Stay the Course’ 2006
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Your dissection of what an insult could or should be perceived to be by the insulter or from the insultee was absolutely right on but more from a technical stand point.
Think Progress » White House ‘Cuts And Runs’ on ‘Stay the Course’ 2006
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I rapidly pushed my way to the scene of the confrontation and placed myself between insulter and insultee.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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Especially as you are fighting a war in the region and the insultee is an ally in that war and in previous confrontaions with the 'enemy'.
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So I'll be more specific, though I'm loath to lend the insultee any more publicity (more on that below): right-wing pundit Laura Ingraham body-snarked on Meghan McCain, blogger daughter of John McCain.
Tyee - Home 2009
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Not necessarily; X may just be insulting to the insultee.
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