insult (n.)
- abase
- abuse
- affront
- airs
- arrogance
- aspersion
- atrocity
- barb
- brickbat
- clannishness
- cliquishness
- contempt
- contemptuousness
- contumely
- cut
- defamation
- despite
- dig
- discourtesy
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- disgrace
- dishonor
- disparagement
- dump
- enormity
- exclusiveness
- fleer
- gibe
- hauteur
- humiliation
- ignominy
- indignity
- injury
- insolence
- invective
- jeer
- jeering
- libel
- mock
- mockery
- obloquy
- offense
- opprobrium
- outrage
- put-down
- ridicule
- rump
- scoff
- scorn
- scurrility
- shame
- slander
- slap
- slight
- slur
- sneer
- snobbishness
- snootiness
- superciliousness
- taunt
- vituperation
insult (v.)
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
