Word: insultable
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Your selection of John Kennedy as Man of the Year is an insult to both the intelligence and integrity of your readers. Although articulate, he is a man of inaction; although forceful in appearance, he is inadequate in performance...
Meany chose to display his feelings toward Reuther by calculated insult. Both as a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and as one of John Kennedy's hardest working supporters during the 1960 campaign, Reuther had every right to expect that he would be placed on the committee assigned to greet President Kennedy at the labor convention. But Meany deliberately left Reuther's name off the committee list, assigned him instead to escort a subsequent convention visitor-Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Rose Bowl and had been invited, only to have their own school turn them down. The team added greatly to the school's prestige, and engendered quite a bit of alumni interest that undoubtedly would not have existed otherwise; the Council's misguided altruism seemed like an unfeeling insult. What are the players supposed to do now? Study...
...kanpus, who in the past had been the grim overseers of the communes, were now forbidden to "arbitrarily set output targets, mechanically arrange crop acreage, or rigidly introduce technical measures." As a final insult, the kanpus were told to seek guidance from "wise old peasants...
...five of its regular six players on the field and to be able to play at all had to rely on an unofficial substitute. The Dunsters were completely out-classed by the Yale team which passed, ran, and later rallied like the Harlem Globetrotters. The Bulls added injury to insult by scoring their final two points on the last play of the game, dropping a Dunster passer behind the goal as he looked vainly for receivers...