insulting (adj.)
- abusive
- arrogant
- atrocious
- audacious
- backhand
- backhanded
- bumptious
- calumnious
- cold
- contumelious
- cool
- degrading
- disdainful
- familiar
- forward
- humiliating
- insolent
- left-handed
- obtrusive
- offensive
- outrageous
- overweening
- presumptuous
- pushy
- scurrilous
- unspeakable
- uppish
- uppity
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.
