Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole article is based either on affirmations or innuendoes to the effect that I have been, so to say, conspiring against General de Gaulle and that he scored a triumph in a battle against me. The first point I consider a gross insult, as I have been on General de Gaulle's side for 18 years, as I still am; the second one is simply ludicrous. It is ridiculous to talk of my "blasted dreams" and even more to say that France experimented with the birth of hope because I, the number one enemy, was "under control...
...would board buses in the suburbs, some carrying umbrellas, others carrying babies on their backs, and head for the grimy brick building that houses the pass office. There they would chant, "Sera sa motho ke pasa [The pass is the enemy of man]," and sometimes they would hurl an insult: "Let the Prime Minister give his own wife a pass if he wants them...
...Soviet culture commissars, who refused to publish the book-a bestseller in the U.S. and Europe-the highest honor in the literary world came as a dastardly capitalist insult, and they promptly went into one of their vitriolic temper tantrums. The Moscow Literary Gazette sputtered that the award was made "for an artistically squalid, malicious work replete with hatred of socialism," written by a traitor, and Pravda said that this "malevolent Philistine" would regret the prize if there were "a spark of Soviet dignity left in him." Prizewinner Pasternak, a gentle genius of craggily handsome countenance and unflinching integrity, sent...
...five men to leave a group for which they have diligently worked, a group which is acknowledged by other Ivy cheerleaders as the "best in the league" and which actually pays for many of its own expenses out of the squad members' pockets, is adding a degree of insult to injury which is absolutely intolerable. In such a case as this, personal dignity prohibits any member of the squad from cheering if any man is cut from the group...
Originally, Samuels said, no official greeting was planned, because "there usually isn't one." However, he added that because of Menshikov's unexpected early arrival yesterday, some officials of the University feared that "it might be considered an insult if the appropriate greeting" was not extended...