Word: insultable
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...everything you can to avoid the amusements and noise and the business of men. Keep as far away as you can from the places where they gather to cheat and insult one another, to exploit one another, or to mock one another with their false gestures of friendship. Do not read their newspapers if you can help it. Be glad if you can keep beyond reach of their radios...
...board, issued a 36-page white paper reciting the Soviet government's repeated refusal of U.S. offers to exchange scholars or information. As the seven-man Russian delegation arrived, Hearst's Daily Mirror roared: "Throw the bums out. We don't want them . . . We intend to insult them-if it is possible...
...Courthouse in Foley Square. This particular pilgrimage consisted of somewhere under 500 of the pamphlet passing placard carrying species of Communist. All this comes under the heading of one of the fundamental maxims of the American CP, to wit: "the best way to get a fair trial is to insult the judge...
...employee agrees . . . that he will not do or commit any act or thing that will tend to degrade him in society or bring him into public hatred, contempt, scorn or ridicule, or that will tend to shock, insult or offend the community . . . or prejudice the producer or the motion picture, theatrical or radio industry in general...
Among all the 50,000 people in the ring, nervous, 23-year-old Rafael Rodriguez wanted most the approval of Rodolfo Gaona. His nod would add thousands of pesos to the matador's earnings. But approval, if it came, would be only a milder-than-usual insult. Who had a better right to be critical? The old man was the greatest bullfighter Mexico ever produced, and one of the greatest in the world's history...