How to Use insulting in a Sentence

insulting

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• The fact that a broken heart can mend is insulting to the grandeur and the spectacle of love.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• This is so insulting to cis women, to trans women, and to the game itself.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Fact is, the very idea of repackaging Mean Girls is insulting.
  — Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
• This is one of Pesina’s most absurd and insulting statements.
  — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2022
• Democrats lambasted the speech as racist and insulting to Black voters.
  — Matt Brown The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
• But to that effect, the way it’s used in a common, insulting kind of way, [that is] absolutely not [true].
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2024
• Things got more insulting when José Abreu hit a grand slam an inning later off Scherzer to set a new record.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• It should, in fact, be considered rude, insulting, and wrong to have uploaded a stranger against their will.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• For Robert Hollis, a 52-year-old who spent two decades in the Army and has called Louisville home for 10 years, blaming the current unrest on outsiders is insulting.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 2 June 2020
• Being too heavy handed can be off putting, but not doing enough can be insulting.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
• The defamation case was filed in connection with comments Gandhi made in a speech that many deemed insulting to Modi.
  — Reuters, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• My character is so unaware and so insulting and self-serving in the best of comedy ways.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
• Most were insulting and many of those were personal attacks.
  — Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• Diana’s ghost is a ridiculous device, and far more insulting to Elizabeth than anything else The Crown might have thrown or will throw at her.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• While the low ranking is rather insulting, the magazine notes the city's history and culture, drawing much from the past with hardly any highlights from the present.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2023
• The idea that EUR 60m would make any difference one way or another is so ludicrous as to be insulting.
  — The Editors, National Review, 24 July 2021
• Most waitresses find the phone number thing to be rather insulting, especially with a poor tip.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• The daylight gained each night is an insulting gesture that life carries on despite my grief still being held in January.
  — Women's Health, 25 Apr. 2023
• Firing two Black head coaches in two seasons is just awful, and highly insulting.
  — David Berry, Chron, 10 Jan. 2023
• Findling said that was insulting and racist toward a Black person and bordered on saying all Black people look alike.
  — Jillian Price, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
• Donovan said Maryland had not recruited her, which was not insulting.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
• Many applicants find their presence not only bizarre, but also a bit insulting.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2024
• More honest phrasing would be less insulting and more refreshing.
  — Linda Chavers, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• Kaczynski sent Gelernter an insulting note two years after his bomb shattered the Yale professor’s right hand and nearly took out one of his eyes.
  — Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
• Even some of Newsom’s usual allies found this pandering ham-fisted, and more than a little insulting to Feinstein, just short of talking about her in past tense.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Oct. 2023
• That would’ve been more appropriate, and almost as insulting.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• But that kind of after-the-fact profit-sharing offer was pretty insulting to some developers.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2022
• And Vivek Ramaswamy, the wealthy entrepreneur who is steadily rising in the polls, is making the argument that the Democrats’ college-for-all pitch was a costly and insulting mistake a central theme of his campaign.
  — Jennifer C. Berkshire, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
• DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said the letter is insulting to the work federal investigators have been doing.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
• In one email, a top hospital official wrote something insulting about the president of Harvard.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024