Synonyms for insulting
in·sult·ing

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1. insulting

   Synonyms:
   awkward, bluff, blunt, boorish, brusk, clownish, coarse, discourteous, ill-behaved, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insolent, raw, rude, rustic, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, untaught, untutored

   Antonyms:
   accomplished, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, elegant, genteel, gracious, obliging, polished, polite, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered

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1. contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornfuladjective

   expressing extreme contempt

   Synonyms:
   contemptuous, haughty, disdainful, swaggering, overbearing, prideful, imperious, scornful, supercilious, lordly, sniffy

   Antonyms:
   respectful

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1. insultingadjective

   Synonyms:
   insolent, impudent, impertinent, saucy, abusive, vituperative, ribald, blackguard

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1. insultingadjective

   Synonyms:
   offensive, contemptuous, contumelious, scurrilous

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1. List of paraphrases for "insulting":

   offensive, insult, insulted, abusive, desecrating, degrading, humiliating, derogatory, outrageous, demeaning

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1. John Feal:

   You can't cherry pick and choose when you want to be a conservative, fiscal hawk, that's just insulting to our intelligence, and shame on Rand Paul -- Rand Paul lack humanity, Rand Paul lack leadership.

2. Andy McKean:

   With the 2020 president election looming on the horizon, I feel as a Republican that I need to be able to support the standard bearer of our party. Unfortunately, that is not something I am able to do, he sets, in my opinion, a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children by personally insulting -- often in a crude and juvenile fashion -- those who disagree with him, being a bully at a time when we we are attempting to discourage bullying, his frequent disregard for the truth and his willingness to ridicule or marginalize people for their appearance, ethnicity or disability.

3. Brandy Welch:

   Faith is a part of our family life, so it is hurtful and insulting to us that Miracle Hill's religious view of what a family must look like deprives foster children of a nurturing, supportive home.

4. Pete Buttigieg:

   The reason that we can stand up tall and say that's not true, that having served honorably in the military, couldn't be more different than being a war criminal is because if we ever did anything that was wrong the United States under the Uniform Code of Military Justice would have held us accountable, and so when the President joins in with this idea, that it's just natural, that if you serve in conflict, that you're going to wind up murdering somebody, he is eroding the integrity of the military, and insulting the Constitution.

5. Leo Murray:

   We're trying to remind the president how unwelcome he is in this country, donald Trump is childish, trivial, insulting. He embodies all of these things. This is an incredibly apt way to welcome him.