Sentence examples for downright insulting from inspiring English sources

It was downright insulting!

Some workers would call this disruptive; others would say it is downright insulting.

What they did was at best ungracious and at worst downright insulting to the host country.

But Roberto Colaninno, Olivetti's chief executive, who has headed Telecom Italia since winning the battle, has come up with a scheme that looks downright insulting.

It would be paradoxical, if not downright insulting, to see officials from Arab League countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia helping Iraqis on to a democratic path.

This crucial element is missing from many examples I've come across and is not only cheeky, but downright insulting to the audience.

If, as Mr. Wolff suggests, my approach lacked diplomacy, Mr. Lewis's reaction was downright vituperative, insulting me personally and announcing to me and the class that I would never amount to anything as a journalist.

Pat Kirkwood, his co-star in Save a Little Sunshine (1938), thought him "rude and insulting and downright nasty".

I actually can't put into words how incredibly offensive, insulting and downright painful I found David Brooks's use of the word "mutts" to describe our two biracial and bicultural children, ages 4 and 1. Talking about people as dogs is problematic in any context, but it's worth exploring Brooks's blatant racism in that column.

Toxic people are often rude, insulting, and downright degrading.

And this is not just insulting, it's downright wrong: so says Elizabeth Washbrook, a researcher at Bristol University who has looked at what families on low incomes spend their money on, both before the welfare reforms and after.