Sentence examples for in an insulting tone from inspiring English sources

"Why isn't he there?" the caller said in an insulting tone.

But in an insulting tone.

With an insulting tone, Ahmadinejad made fun of lawmakers' questions and insulted parliament," Mohammad Taqi Rahbar was quoted as saying by parliament's news agency.

Ms. Alekseyeva responded starchily, "My rule is not to read commentaries on my actions that take an insulting tone".

In 1949 the news weekly Der Spiegel, published in the British-occupied zone, was banned for a week for reporting in a "broadly insulting tone" on the coronation of the Dutch queen Juliana.

But the first time that paragraph 103 of the penal code was invoked, it was still about royal dignity: the British occupying force forbade the publication of German magazine Der Spiegel for a week in 1949 after it had reported on Dutch Queen Juliana's accession to the throne "in a generally insulting tone".

Ignore the insulting tone of a boss's attack, he said, and respond only to the substance of the complaint.