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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoid insult" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone to refrain from offending or disrespecting others in conversation or behavior.
Example: "In discussions about sensitive topics, it's important to choose your words carefully to avoid insult."
Alternatives: "prevent offense" or "steer clear of disrespect".
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Nearby hangs a plaque informing visitors that while Tussauds "actively encourages our guests to touch and interact with our figures... in this case we would ask that to avoid insult to other guests and out of respect for the millions of people who died during the second world war, you refrain from... attempting to 'pose' alongside Hitler's figure".
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She wears a veil to avoid scaring people and to avoid insults.
Try to avoid insults from their friends.
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He stressed his executive and governmental experience, spoke in complete sentences, and avoided insults and sound bites.
Deploying them effectively, however, requires some skill to avoid genuine insult.
In this absolutely nutty system, in which tax can only be explained as a punishment for failing to get rich enough to avoid it, insult is heaped upon injury as judges then characterise the "UK taxpayer" as a special class of person, all themselves in full-time, well-paid employment.
Procopius also attests to his mild manners and desire to avoid giving insult, however at the same time he accuses him of "robbing the scholares" (the members of the Scholae) and being "the biggest thief in the world and absolutely filled with shameful avarice", as well as being responsible for the murder of Amalasuntha.
This created barriers to socializing because of the need to avoid public insult or embarrassment.
Our leaders should avoid gratuitous insults to the Russians, but it is wrong to suggest that we need fear a renewed competition with them.
Many young Iranians are now running away from the mosques and dislike clerics so much that some mullahs take off their turbans and robes when they walk around certain neighborhoods, to avoid being insulted or harassed.
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