Word: insult
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...knew better than to insult the family I stayed with by spouting trivialities rooted in popular culture. By treating everyone I spoke to as my equal I was able to learn amazing things about country life. For example, I had no idea fried peat moss is a delicacy to be washed down with a steaming mug of Junior's yellow country elixir prepared in the backyard shed. Really, my hosts were too kind...
...Where do you go, Yooveeyay?" In Virginia, where I live and work, this is a vague insult to one's virility...
Following Smith's win, Mugabe lashed out angrily at the disproportionate parliamentary representation accorded whites. He promised 200,000 supporters gathered in the Harare township of Highfield that "we will not live with that indignity and insult for very much longer." Branding the whites who supported Smith as "racists of the past," Mugabe also warned ominously of a "cleanup operation so that we remain only with the whites who want to work with the government...
...loudly. Winner of the International Chopin Competition, faculty member at the Moscow Conservatory, Deserving Artist of the Soviet Union, Davidovich was unknown to her new neighbors. Her nonpolitical departure from the U.S.S.R. had occurred without benefit of an international incident and the subsequent career-boosting headlines. Adding injury to insult, Davidovich had been mugged just after her arrival in New York City; unfamiliar with such American customs, she had resisted so fiercely that she required surgery to repair damage to her knees...
...Cuba, I had . . ." These Cubans in turn contrast themselves with others who fled in the 1980 boatlift from the port of Mariel, a minority of whom had been inmates of prisons or mental hospitals. The word Marielito, flung by one Cuban American at another, can be a fighting insult...