Example sentences for: insulting

How can you use “insulting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One cannot easily translate these pejorative suffixes into English: they are a malignly ingenious way of turning an otherwise perfectly inoffensive name into an inherently insulting one, of saying James , for instance, in such a sneering way that no add-on adjectives are needed to convey your obvious but unspecified disdain.

  • It was insulting and embarrassing and (thank God) only lasted a few months.

  • By making racism into some financial decision on the part of rational individuals is not only wrong, but insulting.

  • Insulting surnames generally fall into a few broad categories.

  • My own hunch is that both middle-class blacks and middle-class Latinos are pure Republican timber, waiting to be claimed, if only the GOP can get into gear and mount a campaign less insulting that what the Democrats dish up.


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