The word 'insults' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to offensive remarks or behavior that is intended to hurt someone's feelings. Example: Even though he was angry, he refused to stoop to hurling insults at his opponent.
"The way the debate is being conducted is so bland and repetitive with three men in grey suits throwing insults at each other, it is turning people off," said Conor McGurran, campaigns and citizenship officer at the student union.
They accuse the mainstream republicans of staging a grossly insensitive march which they say denigrates and insults the memories of those murdered in the conflict by the IRA.
The insults heaped on Hull are so ingrained they seem part of its architecture.
Sit at a desk, roll out a barrage of horrific personal insults and grow in infamy with every tirade of boos you receive.
I have been personally vilified with insults, which I regard as naïve and offensive.
(My mind automatically fills in the da-das with appropriate insults).
I have e-mailed you through 2 other gmail accounts just to send you idiotic insults.
A friend who had been in Brisbane told me how she had watched Matt Prior practising in the nets to the noisy accompaniment of insults and expletives from a group of boors.
I would give anything to be in your place, a hero respected and at peace — and not just because of the insults, beatings and stones hurled at me from bus conductors, shopkeepers and children in the streets.
Frontrunner Mitt Romney said mildly of Limbaugh's insults, "it's not the language I would have used".
A gathering in Austin on 29 January for Texas Muslim Capitol Day was disrupted by protesters who shouted insults including "Go home", "remember 9/11" and "Isis will gladly take you".
