These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'insult.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Stronzo is turd in English, which means piece of excrement.
It is widely used to indicate that somebody is a bad, cruel, despicable and detestable person. 2022 The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who described the book as an insult to Islam and the faith's Prophet Mohammed, issued a religious decree, or fatwa, calling for Rushdie's death in 1989.Īya Elamroussi, CNN, 16 Aug. A fairly common Italian insult is stronzo, which corresponds to asshole in English. 2022 Republican lawmakers have condemned it as an insult to those who already paid off their debt and a burden on taxpayers.ĭiti Kohli,, 20 Aug.
2022 Republicans quickly denounced the plan as an insult to Americans who have repaid their debt and to those who didn’t attend college.Ĭollin Binkley, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022 Cole is hurt by this suggestion, seeing such an arrangement as a disgrace to his name and an insult to their relationship. 2022 But predictability, for the candidates, seems to be a strategy, rather than an insult. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2022 Californians turned the term - long used as shorthand for an Oklahoma native - into an insult. 2022 Don’t be goaded into responding even when Mr. Mychal Denzel Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 July 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun His campaign is not an insult to Black people but a tribute to the white electorate that is the lifeblood of his candidacy.Īnthony Conwright, The New Republic, 30 Sep. Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 15 July 2022 The teenage boys on my local basketball court still insult each other by using anti-gay slurs. Globe Staff,, 25 July 2022 Rolling Stone reinforces that insult in order to claim control of popular consensus.Īrmond White, National Review, 29 July 2022 And my personality isn’t ever one to insult anybody. Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 July 2022 And her tirades ruin gatherings for me, occur on my time, happen in my home, and insult my family.Ĭarolyn Hax, Washington Post, 5 June 2022 There was no reason to insult him with the de facto one-year, $30 million extension, but there are plausible concerns about his future. Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022 At the end of the day, the most important thing for me and the most important thing for the showrunners was to not insult the original series' Kirk by doing an imitation of. 2022 To call it tinny is to insult the fine if mundane qualities of tin. Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Even after his criminal conviction, Griffin, a bombastic man who briefly considered riding a horse to his sentencing at the courthouse in Washington, continued to publicly disparage his case and insult the judge who heard it.Īlan Feuer,, 6 Sep.
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