Sentence examples for stinging insult from inspiring English sources

The far left has branded him ultra-libéral, a stinging insult in France.

"People are so mean on here," she said, after reading one particularly stinging insult, by a fellow-broadcaster named Mojojojoe69.

He immediately experienced what he regarded as a stinging insult and a great inconvenience when the British refused to grant him traveling papers, saying he was officially a Turkish subject.

In July came a stinging insult:EDS' debt rating was downgraded to junk-bond levels.

When Mubarak refused to budge like a bloodsucking tick on a milk cow, they brandished their shoes and cried out, "Mubarak, you are a shoe!" (a stinging insult in Arab culture).

For prog artists with lofty pretensions to high art, "middlebrow" may be the most stinging insult of all.

Both statements came off as stinging insults directed at large groups of voters, and both were seen as tactical disasters.

Where are the stinging insults?

The concept of "gym class" has become crystallized in our public consciousness as the stuff of towel whips and stinging insults about your naked body and maybe a hard-ass gym teacher who always sides with the bully.

(It's hard to imagine the insult stinging in industries such as technology or aerospace, where no one questions that the point is to sell stuff).

Wilde hesitated, then for the first time became flustered: "You sting me and insult me and try to unnerve me; and at times one says things flippantly when one ought to speak more seriously".