Word: insultingly
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...wrestler too." So it was like an unwritten law of camaraderie or fraternity of wrestlers that you protected the business. If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult...
...everyone in the world has been happy to greet Ronald McDonald when he moves to town. Many see the corporate juggernaut as a symbol of American economic and cultural chauvinism, and European nations in particular have viewed American-style fast food as an insult to their cherished national cuisines. Bermuda banned all fast-food restaurants to squelch a McDonald's planned for the island. A French farmer, Jose Bove, became something of a national hero in 1999 after he and a band of activists destroyed a McDonald's under construction to protest globalization and "bad food." The next year...
...name of one of Rupert Murdoch’s more controversial projects, Fox News Channel, is something of a misnomer. The channel cannot be considered an objective source of information by any stretch of the imagination, and to deem it “news” is an insult to the very idea of what true journalism is. The list of misdeeds and controversies in which Fox has been embroiled are a Wikipedia page long, and the jesters whom they now seem fond of employing represent little more than proof that, in America, dishonesty and insanity do not preclude gainful...
...lone pitchers of water added insult to injury for the up and coming academics about to attempt the hardest job market in decades. The irony of food cutbacks for this meeting was simply cruel...
...matching strings. "With this method we see the way authors use and reuse the same phrases and metaphors, like chunks of fabric in a weave," says Vickers. "If you have enough of them, you can identify one fabric as Scottish tweed and another as plain gray cloth." (No insult intended to Kyd.) (See the top 10 imposters...