Sentence examples for supposed insult from inspiring English sources

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So why does he seem to enjoy using homosexuality as a supposed insult on Twitter? "Look, I try to get myself big fights.

Her supposed insult -- which she denies saying, and was almost certainly a local fabrication involving internal Cambodian politics -- was to claim that Cambodia's national symbol, Angkor Wat, in fact belongs to Thailand.

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"It's derogatory, it's meant to be offensive, though I don't really understand why I am supposed to be insulted," said Julie Schreck, a corporate security manager from Manhattan.

We are looked at as "special" in a way that we are not supposed to, feel insulted when heterosexual black people tell us that they love us even if they "don't agree with our lifestyle".

Was that supposed to be an insult to the Broncos?

He said "this strain of libertarianism," which I guess was supposed to be an insult, "is a very dangerous thought".

To the uninitiated, it probably seems embarrassingly infantile to base insults upon supposed suitability for a fictional house in a fictional school, but the rest will surely understand why Sara called Tom a Muggle and stormed off.

Cat drops the line "What's that supposed to mean?!" when insulted.

Occasionally, someone -- often in the entertainment industry -- makes a claim so absurd that it serves only to insult those it is supposed to persuade.

Everyone in the media has hung on his every insult and hyped a supposed civil war in the Republican Party between the cynical, sold-out Old Guard in Washington and Trump's angry, fed-up, blue-collar rebels.

And what would be the rationale behind a song called "Teach Me To Bear You", a title whose mix of presumption and insult seems ill-suited to its supposed task of persuasion?

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