Sentence examples for as a insult and from inspiring English sources

The protocol-conscious Saudis regarded that as a insult and the meeting ended abruptly amid some highly undiplomatic language.

He could take any compliment as an insult, and any insult was worth killing over.

This is meant both as an insult and a backhanded compliment.

(The conventional epithet is "cunning," which Russians mean as an insult and Tatars take as a compliment).

She called it Prinniefied.com — "prinnie" as in "princess," which she'd heard used as an insult, and thought was funny.

I've heard people use "gay" as an insult, and laugh at a man in a dress.

But in practice, such diagnoses are often taken as an insult and met with charges of a coverup.

Despite extensive American efforts to limit the searches, Iraqis described them as an insult and a violation.

We should have been proud of bog-standard comprehensives instead of seeing the term as an insult and seeking alternatives".

Holmes took this invasion as an insult and began writing letters to the papers and making speeches calling Renouard a fraud, and predicting his early failure.

Their convivial and flirtatious songs are sometimes called "bro-country," a description invariably wielded as an insult, and not always fairly.