Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believe we voice the sentiment of a large majority of the members of the Harvard Dining Association when we say that the action of the directors was hasty, uncalled for, arbitrary, inadequate to the purpose, and an insult to the well-behaved members of the association...
...present position. The disturbances have almost invariably occurred on Thursdays, and it is to be expected that by removing the chief temptation, the misconduct will stop. If it does not, we suppose the directors will have to close the gallery altogether. We cannot see that the measure is "an insult to the well-behaved members of the association" any more, indeed, than than the placing of proctors in the dormitories is an insult to the well-behaved men who live in them. If the action creates a strong enough sentiment against ungentlemanly conduct to frown it down in the future...
Especially do I condemn the behavior of a few young men in a private box whose actions deserved to be classed with those of Bowery "toughs," rather than of members of the leading university of America. I am glad to say, however that one outrageous insult which they flaunted in the face of the whole audience twice, if not three times, was resented by many of the students themselves...
...unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators, or Guy Fawkes in the cellar of St. Stephen's. We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking, a society, too, which will not involve...
...songs the CRIMSON sprung upon us. It was bad enough to lose the game without the unnecessary torture of reading such dreary twaddle. Apart from the fact that they were dull, tiresome, poorly printed, and spelled in the altogether original way the CRIMSON at times affects, they were an insult to the entire college. Not even the CRIMSON has the right to put forth such stuff in the name of this college. The spirit that animated the paper was undoubtedly of the best, but these songs were unmistakably a case of mistaken zeal...