Insults Synonyms and Antonyms

An instance of mockery or derision
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. twits
  2. taunts
  3. scoffs
  4. jeers
  5. gibes
A rude expression intended to offend or hurt
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. slights
  2. outrages
  3. contumelies
  4. indignities
  5. affronts
  6. snubs
  7. incivilities
  8. ignominies
  9. digs
  10. abuses
  11. gibes
  12. taunts
  13. slanders
  14. disrespects
  15. discourtesies
  16. mockeries
  17. offenses
  18. blasphemies
  19. scurrilities
  20. invectives
  21. put-downs
Antonyms:
  1. praises
  2. compliments
  3. flatteries
  4. homages
  5. tributes
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To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. offends

Words Related to Insults

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Insults Sentence Examples

  • I can get into enough trouble without people squeezing imaginary insults out of my words.

  • But you need something to keep you from challenging every merchant's son who insults your boots.

  • In the chapter (xx.) of that work where Hobbes dealt with the famous problem whose solution he thought he had found, there were left expressions against Vindex (Ward) at a time when the solutions still seemed to him good; but the solutions themselves, as printed, were allowed to be all in different ways halting, as he naively confessed he had discovered only when he had been driven by the insults of malevolent men to examine them more closely with the help of his friends.

  • It is said that he was subjected to the greatest insults by his captors, and that after his death his skin was stuffed with straw and preserved as a trophy in the chief Persian temple.

  • Witnesses reported hearing the attackers shout homophobic insults at Mr Dobrowski.

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