Word: insult
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...fact, that Brown crew won everything in sight last season. The Bears won at Sprints, Nationals and the Henley Regutta in England. Adding insult to injury, Brown blew out Harvard by more than seven seconds in a dual-meet held at Providence...
Churlish males have suspected for decades that homemaking is little more than a sinecure for the low-skilled and occupationally impaired. Of course no husband dares look his wife in the eye -- often bloodshot from sleep deprivation -- and tell her that she "doesn't work." Yet somehow the insult is assumed to be forgivable when directed at the down...
...news" organizations that purport to reveal the true system to Americans. In a perfunctory attempt to separate themselves from other televisual entertainment, the TV news media has pounced on these grave issues with a cynical ferocity that could be well described as vulturine, if such a characterization did not insult a species which actually performs an ultimately useful function in nature...
...Chinese authorities, The Blue Kite was nothing more than an incendiary insult. They approved the script but when Tian diverged from it, refused to let him edit his film; it languished for a year and was completed abroad by others working from the director's screenplay and notes. The film was banned in China, and last month Tian and six other prominent directors were forbidden to make films in their homeland...
...This is the final insult," Davis said. "Theyrefuse to recognize our votes. The only option wehave left is to refuse to recognize them by notpaying our fees in the fall...