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insult
(redirected from added insult to injury)

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insult noun abuse, affront, aspersion, atrocity, defamation, defilement, derision, diatribe, disparagement, enormity, impertinence, incivility, indignity, insolence, mockery, offense, offensive remark, open disrespect, provocation, rebuff, revilement, ridicule, rudeness, slap in the face, slight, snub, uncomplimentary remarks, vulgarity
insult verb affront, be rude to, denigrate, deride, disparage, display insolence toward, disregard, flout, hector, hold in derision, humiliate, jeer, mock, offend, pique, provoke, raise one's dander, rebuff, ridicule, treat with contemptuousness, treat with discourresy, treat with indignity
See also: affront, aspersion, bait, contumely, defamation, defilement, denigrate, diatribe, disoblige, disparage, disregard, disrespect, flout, harass, hector, humiliate, jeer, mock, pique, provocation, provoke, rebuff, revilement


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Jackson then added insult to injury by immediately hiring Sullivan to his staff.
Serving two flags: neocons, Israel and the Bush Administration by Green, Stephen / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Then, in 1899, Eliot quite gratuitously added insult to injury when, at the end of an article on educational reform in the Atlantic Monthly, he said the Jesuits and Moslems prescribed an unchanging "ecclesiastical" mode of education absurdly cut off from the "immense deepening and expanding of human knowledge in the nineteenth century, and the increasing sense of the individual's gifts and will power.
Getting into Harvard by Murtaugh, Daniel M. / Commonweal
In an interview with The Advocate seven months after the tragedy, Addams discussed how the media added insult to injury.
February 1, 2000 Winchell's woman. (From the Advocate Archives) by Romesburg, Don / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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