Insulting Synonyms and Antonyms

Treat, mention, or speak to rudely
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. outraging
  2. offending
  3. slandering
  4. ridiculing
  5. taunting
  6. teasing
  7. affronting
  8. mocking
  9. underestimating
  10. piquing
  11. humiliating
  12. demeaning
  13. snubbing
  14. slighting
  15. slurring
  16. abusing
  17. jeering
  18. slapping
  19. shaming
  20. scorning
  21. provoking
  22. roasting
  23. aggravating
  24. annoying
  25. reviling
  26. irritating
  27. miffing
  28. vexing
  29. maligning
  30. flouting
  31. huffing
  32. disgracing
  33. degrading
  34. vilifying
  35. belittling
Antonyms:
  1. flattering
  2. extolling
  3. complimenting
  4. praising
To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. offending

Words Related to Insulting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Insulting Sentence Examples

  • The inference was insulting.

  • How could she tell him without being insulting?

  • This deputation led to the recall of Narses in 567, accompanied, according to a somewhat late tradition, by an insulting message from the empress Sophia, who sent him a golden distaff, and bade him, as he was not a man, go and spin wool in the apartments of the women.

  • She started to defend herself, but his implication was insulting.

  • It was on this occasion that President Kruger, referring to the London Convention, spoke of Queen Victoria as a kwaaje Vrouw, an expression which caused a good deal of offence in England at the time, but which, to any one familiar with the homely phraseology of the Boers, obviously was not meant by President Kruger as insulting.

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