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Word: insultedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bravely, he marched up to the proctor, cleared his throat, and said, "I am woefully under prepared for this exam. It will be an insult for me, you, and my professor for me to take this test. Please mark me down for an F and I will not subject myself to this painful travesty...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Stranger Than Fiction? | 1/18/1985 | See Source »

...Californians it was perhaps the ultimate insult. In an effort to lure film production eastward, the state of Florida took out an ad in show business trade papers with an illustration of one of the most famous sights in Southern California, the hill that displays the giant sign HOLLYWOOD. But where those nine letters should have been, an artist had superimposed seven different ones: FLORIDA. "Hollywood weather without Hollywood overhead," read the caption below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Attack of the Alien States | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...Adding insult to Mitterrand's already injured political fortunes, the mayors of Strasbourg and Colmar last week boycotted his formal visit to Alsace in order to protest the transfer of a planned nuclear-research facility from the area to Grenoble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: The Doublecross and the Hit Hoax | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

Moreover, it seems, academics don't like to hurt each others' feelings. To publicize the names of those being considered for a Harvard position, the argument goes would embarrass and insult those...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges and Charles T. Kurzman, S | Title: Waiting for the White Smoke: A Peek at Harvard's Tenure Searches | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

Cooke participates in a completely irrelevant scene that epitomizes the defects in the story line. Nigel, dressed in a grey leather jumpsuit, visits Selena's amusement park hideout, and asks her right-hand woman Bianca (Brenda Vaccaro) to summon Selena Selena appears, both women insult Cooke's suit, and they slam the door in his face...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Call Off the Celluloid | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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