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insult

2 noun
     
in‧sult2 [countable]
1 a remark or action that is offensive or deliberately rude:
She was shouting insults at her boyfriend.
$200 for all that work? It's an insult.
Their offer was so low I took it as an insult (=thought it was meant to be an insult).
2

be an insult to somebody's intelligence

to offend someone by being too simple or stupid:
Some advertising is an insult to our intelligence.

➔ add insult to injury

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