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- Dictionaryinsult
verb
- 1. speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse: "you're insulting the woman I love"
noun
- 1. a disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or act: "he hurled insults at us"
- 2. an event which causes damage to a tissue or organ: "the movement of the bone causes a severe tissue insult"
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2 days ago · Take a deep breath. Count to ten. Give yourself a moment to let the initial emotional storm pass. This pause can be the difference between a knee-jerk reaction that escalates the situation and a measured response that diffuses tension and preserves your dignity. Remember, fear of intelligence often drives these insults.
1 day ago · Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or conversational intimacy.
5 days ago · hate crime, harassment, intimidation, or physical violence that is motivated by a bias against characteristics of the victim considered integral to his social identity, such as his race, ethnicity, or religion.
5 days ago · An Insight into Corpus: Identifying New Words and Meanings. Neologisms and the constant evolution of language fascinates dictionary editors and users alike. For lexicographers, the use of corpora is essential to the way in which new words are identified, monitored and recorded. Let’s start with a little bit of background about the use of ...
3 days ago · Reddit's /r/rareinsults is a subreddit where people share the most diabolical, brutally rare insults they see being thrown around online. The people who got these insults will never recover from the burn. Here are just 26 of them to inspire the next rare insult that might be needed.
5 days ago · 27 September 2024. In current usage, nimrod is often used as a disparaging term for an inept or foolish person, but its original and basic meaning is as a term for a hunter.
1 day ago · Instead, they chose a path that goes against the very values of respect and dialogue that define us as Gambians. As a nation, we must reject these actions and hold ourselves to a higher standard. Political discourse should focus on solutions, policies, and the collective good—not on personal attacks or insults.
