Word: insultable
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...percent of the population cannot afford membership in an insurance program, the President's Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation reported in 1952. Charity hospitals for the needy too often add insult to injury. More serious still, those with enough money to pay for ordinary expenses cannot qualify for admission to free hospitals, yet they can afford neither illness nor the high premiums of health insurance...
...referred to his audiences as mostly middle-aged and middle-class ... I wouldn't insult this group if I were you, since it makes up the majority of our population...
...Miss Cordingly revered Roosevelt's memory and was eager to help anyone interested in him. She was also quick to defend him. Once John Mason Brown, drama critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote an article which seemed to Miss Cordingly to imply she took as an insult to Roosevelt, wore a wig. Stung by what she took as an insult to Roosevelt, she wrote Brown, demanding that he name his authority. Brown diplomatically suggested that her interpretation had been mistaken, explaining that he had been referring to a wig once worn by Ed Wynn in impersonating Roosevelt...
...Joseph, one of a trio of convicts who attempt to solve the problems of the Ducotel family. Losing money at an alarming rate, Felix Ducotel's general store in the French penal colony is soon to be closed by Henri Trochard, the prototype of a heartless capitalist. To add insult to bankruptcy, Ducotel's daughter is hopelessly in love with Trochard's nephew, who can only marry on the pain of disinheritance. At this point, it might be said with some justification that this is nothing new, even under the Guiana sun. Actually, when Spewack introduces the convicts, he provides...
...with it, heads back to the mining town-or is it the sexy nurse (Dianne Foster)?-that really needs him. Dr. Heston treats his patients with a pre-med manner of such overbearing superiority that he makes the saving of a man's life seem a kind of insult...