How to Use insulting in a Sentence

insulting

adjective

• Perkins said the drink bore the insulting message.
  — Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
• Pratt came in with an insulting offer and needed to be pushed.
  — Heather Merrick, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026
• But as hazardous as that sounds, too large is not nearly as insulting as too small.
  — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025
• The fact that a broken heart can mend is insulting to the grandeur and the spectacle of love.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• Being too heavy handed can be off putting, but not doing enough can be insulting.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
• This is one of Pesina’s most absurd and insulting statements.
  — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2022
• Altman seems to find the question insulting.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
• Fact is, the very idea of repackaging Mean Girls is insulting.
  — Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
• It should, in fact, be considered rude, insulting, and wrong to have uploaded a stranger against their will.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• Democrats lambasted the speech as racist and insulting to Black voters.
  — Matt Brown The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
• Those were found to be both abusive and insulting, and included a reference to colour or race.
  — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• Many researchers cite those exact words as insulting or wrong when asked about their own terminations.
  — Stat Staff, STAT, 29 Dec. 2025
• More honest phrasing would be less insulting and more refreshing.
  — Linda Chavers, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• My character is so unaware and so insulting and self-serving in the best of comedy ways.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
• Many applicants find their presence not only bizarre, but also a bit insulting.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2024
• To educate all of them in similar ways is insulting, and silly.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
• But to that effect, the way it’s used in a common, insulting kind of way, [that is] absolutely not [true].
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2024
• While their insulting jabs at each other make for good laughs, their arc as teammates learning to work together is what gives the film its heart.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
• Most waitresses find the phone number thing to be rather insulting, especially with a poor tip.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• Using those who serve in uniform as political props is insulting.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
• Donovan said Maryland had not recruited her, which was not insulting.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
• That would’ve been more appropriate, and almost as insulting.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• Firing two Black head coaches in two seasons is just awful, and highly insulting.
  — David Berry, Chron, 10 Jan. 2023
• With two toddlers and a 10-hour workday for her husband, the advice was more insulting than helpful.
  — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
• Things got more insulting when José Abreu hit a grand slam an inning later off Scherzer to set a new record.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• The whole thing feels redundant and borderline insulting.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
• What Florence has been doing is consistent and insulting.
  — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 19 June 2026
• The discontent was more widespread, more vociferous and more insulting this time.
  — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• The daylight gained each night is an insulting gesture that life carries on despite my grief still being held in January.
  — Women's Health, 25 Apr. 2023
• Then wine — which had previously been considered insulting, as if decent wine would not be provided — was added.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023