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Insultingly

adverb
1.
In a disrespectful and insulting manner.
2.
In an unfair and insulting manner.  Synonym: foully.






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"Insultingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tour, contemptuously, "of that duty which would lead a man to play the coward in a moment of difficulty, and tamely turn from an enemy, who has insultingly defied him, when one effort can crush ...
— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney

... them and Starr eagerly seconded the invitation. Michael accepted as eagerly, and a few moments later found himself seated at the elegantly appointed table by the side of a beautiful and haughty woman who stared at him coldly, almost insultingly, and made not one remark to him throughout the whole meal. The boy looked at her half wonderingly. It almost seemed as if she intended to resent his presence, yet of course that could not be. His idea of this whole family was the highest. No one belonging to Starr could of course be aught but ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill

... bodies were lying on the floor, and several men were binding up their wounds. The police-officer inquired into the origin of the broil, and all present concurred in saying that it arose from some Secessionists speaking insultingly of the ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty



Words linked to "Insultingly" :   insulting, foully



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