Word: insult
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Fordham added insult to injury when it scored a two-point conversion and strecthed the lead...
...objective in this discussion was to censor the "truth," to revile Islam by dictating what is acceptable--a sin comparable to those of the sheikhs they despise. Then, in front of three fellow Muslims, I was declared a "munafiq," a hypocrite in the faith, perhaps the most vicious insult to a Muslim...
From the youngest age in Little League, there is often a denigrating attitude toward girls and women. The worst insult a boy can yell at another boy in Little League is to call him a "wuss." If you combine the emphasis on winning at any cost with the negative attitude toward women, it is not at all surprising that approximately one-third of the sexual assaults on college campuses are by athletes...
...refuse shelter; those who claim rights for fetuses and those who want the right to make their own choice for abortion; those who want their teenagers taught to use condoms and those who insist on the right to keep their kids ignorant of such things; campus hoodlums who insult their fellow students and college administrators who promulgate censorious "rules of conduct" to prevent their students from giving offense to this or that ethnic group, sexual preference, or body type. Their "rights" give their claims -- whatever they may be -- an absolute air, and any attempt to thwart their claims turns them...
Language itself is buckling under the strain of avoiding insult and injury to everybody in response to the crybaby's complaint. Ever mindful of the genuine or imagined sensitivities of women and minorities, the University of Missouri's Multicultural Management Program has produced for newspaper reporters a 22-page dictionary of loaded words and phrases. Some of the proposals in the lexicon are unarguable (bimbo and broad are derogatory when applied to women). Other entries, listed mainly to pacify various groups, are questionable. Burly should be used with care, since it is "too often associated with large black men, implying...