Another word for insulting

insulting Synonyms

insulting

modif.

abusive, offensive, disparaging, derogatory, hurtful, debasing, degrading, affronting, outrageous, humiliating, scoffing, derisive, contemptuous, disrespectful, insolent, scurrilous, nasty, dyslogistic; see also opprobrious 1, rude 2.

Antonyms respectful*, complimentary, honoring.

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The inference was insulting.
"I'm not sure if you're insulting me or complimenting me," she said with a puzzled smile.
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.
He rejected the insulting ultimatum of the Russian emperor.
The insulting dismissal of a large body of Athenian troops which had come, under Cimon, to aid the Spartans in the siege of the Messenian stronghold of Ithome, the consummation of the Attic democracy under Ephi altes and Pericles, the conclusion of an alliance between Athens Training A pothetae (ai 'A-r-o%-raa, from lurOBEros, hidden) .

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