What does insulting mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornfuladjective

    expressing extreme contempt

Wiktionary

  1. insultingadjective

    Containing insult, or having the intention of insulting.

    He received an insulting letter.

Wikipedia

  1. insulting

    An insult is an expression or statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An insult may be factual, but at the same time pejorative, such as the word "inbred".

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  1. insulting

    Insulting refers to the act of disrespecting, offending, or belittling someone through words or actions, having an intention to hurt their feelings, or showing a lack of regard or consideration for their self-esteem or dignity. It can also involve expressing contempt, rudeness or derision towards someone.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Insulting

    of Insult

  2. Insultingadjective

    containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of insulting in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of insulting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of insulting in a Sentence

  1. Duy Nguyen:

    It is insulting to our Asian culture to call me that, and it comes across as racist, and it's shocking cause Mary should be more educated and understand it's not appropriate to say stuff like that.

  2. Harold Schaitberger:

    His comments are reckless and insulting to the firefighters and people being affected.

  3. Aung Thaw Win:

    Going against amendments to the constitution is insulting the people and disrespectful to the country.

  4. Alexander Shprygin:

    The French government have completely failed in terms of maintenance of security at Euro 2016, three days before the England-Russia match in Marseille, there were a huge amount of English supporters who were provoking our fans. They were insulting our country, our president and were throwing glasses of beer at us. They were fighting with the locals and the police. On June 11, they fought with Russian fans.

  5. Hillary Clinton:

    They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.

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