Insult
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An insult is a statement or action which affronts or demeans someone.
Desmond Morris has noted in The Naked Ape that 'verbal insults often take a phallic form. Almost all the really vicious swearwords we can use to hurl abuse at someone are sexual words.......Visual insults follow the same trend'.
Etymology
Latin insultāre (“to jump at, insult”), ultimately from salīre (“to jump”).
See also
- Ad hominem
- Contreblasons
- Damning with faint praise
- Defamation
- Hate speech
- Invective
- Jibe
- Libel
- Maledicta
- Maledictology
- Mock
- Pejorative
- Profanity
- Rudeness
- Satire
- Shoeing
- Taunt
- The Dozens, a game of "one-upmanship" involving insults or snaps usually related to the mother of one's opponent
- Wit
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