Word: insultable
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...hope that such an influential magazine as TIME will not again insult the Chinese by using a color term which classes them with the Japanese...
They hit the Secretary with the double force of an unintended insult. He had just told the Japanese once again, firmly, that the U.S. would not condone further aggression by them...
...college (but he has no diploma of any sort; he never graduated from a high school). As editor of a page printed in small type, he believes "the editors of the country have been driven into big type and innocuous opinion through offering their readers domineering opinion and insult rather than close reasoning and comradely respect...
Muddling Britons last week managed a neat insult to their ally Soviet Russia. On his way to Washington, Russia's newly appointed Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff flew into Teheran, tried to fly on to Cairo in a British Overseas Airways plane. But chubby Ambassador Litvinoff was stopped at the steps to the plane with the information: "All seats already have been taken...
...order to follow the programs of WQXR some 14,000 listeners every month contribute 10? to obtain a monthly program listing. Stern in its policy about advertising, WQXR rejects obnoxious commercial plugs on the ground that they insult fastidious customers. It was mortified when it learned too late for cancellation that a Ford show last year included advertising ditties...