insulting

insulting
    adj 1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: {contemptuous},
           {disdainful}, {insulting}, {scornful}]
    

Insulting \In*sult"ing\, a.
   Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to
   insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. --
   {In*sult"ing*ly}, adv.

   Syn: Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive;
        contemptuous. See {Insolent}.
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Insult \In*sult"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Insulted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Insulting}.] [F. insulter, L. insultare, freq. fr.
   insilire to leap into or upon; pref. in- in, on + salire to
   leap. See {Salient}.]
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   1. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
      [Obs.] --Shak.
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   2. To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by
      word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a
      liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
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33 Moby Thesaurus words for "insulting":
      abusive, arrogant, atrocious, audacious, backhand, backhanded,
      bumptious, calumnious, cold, contumelious, cool, degrading,
      disdainful, familiar, forward, hubristic, humiliating, insolent,
      left-handed, obtrusive, offensive, outrageous, overpresumptuous,
      overweening, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, pushy, scurrile,
      scurrilous, unspeakable, uppish, uppity