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INSULT

Traducere în limba română

insult I. substantiv

1. insultă, ofensă, jignire, ultragiu, afront;

to offer an insult to smb. a aduce o insultă / jignire cuiva;

to bear an insult a suporta o insultă;

to swallow / pocket an insult a înghiţi o insultă / un afront;

to add insult to injury a aduce noi insulte;

to sit down under insults a suporta jigniri (fără a crâcni).

2. batjocură, bătaie de joc.

insult II. verb tranzitiv

a insulta, a ofensa, a jigni, a ultragia, a aduce (cuiva) insulte / jigniri / un afront.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The note was written in the terms which one gentleman would use to another after offering some deep insult.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

But she had made up her mind how to meet this presumption so many weeks before it appeared, that when the insult came at last, it found her very differently affected.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The name of Walter I can drop, thank God! and I desire you will never insult me with my second W. again, meaning, for the rest of my life, to be only yours truly,—Wm.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

It is the first really grown-up party that I have ever been invited to, and I am a little uncomfortable; for I appear not to belong to anybody, and nobody appears to have anything to say to me, except Mr. Larkins, who asks me how my schoolfellows are, which he needn't do, as I have not come there to be insulted.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

If I ask him to stay, he'll think I'm jealous, and I wouldn't insult him by such an idea.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I don't believe any of you suffer as I do, cried Amy, for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)




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