Word: insultedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contemptuous of democratic society, an insult to people's intelligence, and another example of the Reagan administration's lack of respect for the press," said Roger Mudd, NBC Washington correspondent...
...suggest; the threat of human intimacy is provocation enough. Are they men like Billy (Matthew Modine), a fresh-faced lad with a college education? Or Richie (Mitchell Lichtenstein), an upper-class homosexual with a taste for taunt? Or Roger (David Alan Grier), a sweet-natured black who deflects each insult with a shrug? Or Carlyle (Michael Wright), the slum-bred black spoiling for a quick apocalypse? Doesn't matter. When the crisis comes, they will be as surprised as the paratrooper whose chute just wouldn't open...
Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical profession...
...anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person. Your insult to a head of state and your odious lies dishonor not only your magazine but also your nation . . . You symbolize the worst in humanity...
Both speakers alluded to a nuclear catastrophe as the inevitable result of continued "brutalization" in Central America. "Calling the world a jungle is an insult to the lions and tigers," Chomsky said...