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insulted their hosts by casually remarking about the outdated look of their home
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Recent Examples of insulting
Hannah Ryan, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
There would be nothing more insulting to our democracy, and to the memory of those who died in connection to that day, than letting rioters walk free.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
This disastrous budget is even more insulting as Los Angeles County grapples with the devastation from four major fires.
—Bill Essayli, Orange County Register, 11 Jan. 2025
Hinchcliffe, who is not Puerto Rican, was just plain cruel, insulting and dehumanizing.
—David Plazas, The Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2024
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For many, the very idea was insulting and represented an abandonment of loyal fans in Birmingham who can’t afford to fly out to the United States.
—Hannah Ryan, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
There would be nothing more insulting to our democracy, and to the memory of those who died in connection to that day, than letting rioters walk free.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
This disastrous budget is even more insulting as Los Angeles County grapples with the devastation from four major fires.
—Bill Essayli, Orange County Register, 11 Jan. 2025
Hinchcliffe, who is not Puerto Rican, was just plain cruel, insulting and dehumanizing.
—David Plazas, The Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2024
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Meanwhile, the Eagles coach and players thanked God after their win as though their spiritual beliefs made the Chiefs offensive line collapse without any blitzing. 4.—
Paul Sullivan,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2025
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The Saints also interviewed Dolphins defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver, Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn New York Giants offensive coordinator Mike Kafka and Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady.—
Brett Martel,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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Her behavior became so outrageous and uncontrollable that her family arranged to send her to a girls’ reformatory.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2025
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The art of the deal, evidently, is to be the behemoth who takes outrageous positions that cause his weaker targets to shake in their boots; the master’s genius is soon demonstrated when the targets move away from what we’re meant to see as their previously intractable positions.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
8 Feb. 2025
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In turn, Israel has accused Hamas of not respecting the order in which the hostages were to be released and of orchestrating abusive public displays before large crowds when they have been handed over to the Red Cross.—
James Mackenzie, Emily Rose,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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Moldovan journalist Lina receives a video message from her estranged father, a migrant worker in Italy, seeking help from his abusive employer.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s vituperative persona, his enmity toward multilateralism, and his extreme policy agenda could easily sink the United States’ prospects for meaningful leadership of the G-20.—
Leslie Vinjamuri,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Nov. 2024
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Unlike Rhoades, a vituperative colossus, however, Williams brings a steely determination and a Joe Friday, just-the-facts mien to his lawyering in the court of public opinion.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
4 Oct. 2024
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One upshot was Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which to this day insulates social media from legal liability for the content — however incendiary or scurrilous — that users post.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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Facts won’t deter Republicans on this point, however, for the same reason that Trump and his running mate, J. D. Vance, keep repeating their scurrilous lies about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of Ohio: white anxiety about a diversifying country has become one of the Party’s greatest assets.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
The New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2024
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The high school student complainants said in the lawsuit that their families’ First Amendment rights have been violated by the law, which has a much broader definition of obscene material than the one defined by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
4 Feb. 2025
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There might be behavioral symptoms that make someone cancel a flight at the last minute because of their panic or decide to take a train for an obscene number of hours to avoid flying.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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Orange Beach has a vulgarity ordinance on the books, which was enacted about a decade ago amid concerns about vulgar or indecent T-shirts and other merchandise sold at souvenir stores.—
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al,
20 Jan. 2023
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Because there are more good people than indecent ones.—
Jack Irvin,
Peoplemag,
12 Jan. 2023
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Newsletter On Politics In an era of invective and distrust, two California candidates turned a tie over to chance.—
Jess Bidgood,
New York Times,
19 Dec. 2024
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Once more, Donald Trump’s lawyers are attempting to override the guilty verdict of a jury in the Manhattan hush money case, asking the court to toss it while slinging invective at the office of District Attorney Alvin Bragg, which successfully won Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts this year.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
5 Dec. 2024
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“Insulting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insulting. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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