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Insults (page 2)

Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are), Volume 3

We just can’t bananaquit them

Better Ways to Say "This Sucks"

Your day is the worst. Your vocabulary is the best.

11 Words for People Who Are Bad At What They Do

What to call the inept, incompetent, and inferior

10 Words for Other People's Children

Brats, ankle biters, and other holy terrors

8 More Words for Inept People

We don't doubt they're trying their very best.

9 Words for Impostors

Fakes, fraudsters, charlatans and more

12 Political Putdowns

For When 'Lowdown Crook' Isn't Specific Enough

'Dunderhead' and Other ‘Nicer’ Ways to Say Stupid

As illustrated by some very smart pups

11 Obscure Words for Thieves

Yeggs, jackrollers, footpads, and more

'Ignoramuses' or 'Ignorami'?

Notes on a plural

What is an 'ass clown'?

A socially inept or stupid person

Snitches Get Synonyms

7 words for talking out of turn

10 Words to Call the Snobs and Elitists in Your Life

Look, your worshipfulness...

5 Words for Clumsy People

Just watch your step on the way in.

8 Insults Made Up of a Noun and a Verb

A collection of obscure put-downs

What's that smell? Obscure Words for Bad Odors

10 obscure words for bad odors

9 Words to Describe Your (Worst) Roommate

Or just someone who bothers you

'Hector', 'Myrmidon', and 7 More Ways to Ruin Your Good Name

Sometimes you don't want your name to live forever

Thomas Nashe's 8 Kinds of Drunkards

Because English is full of words for drunk people

7 Cute Words for Complainers

Surly but sweet

8 Words for Men of Ill-Repute

Good words for bad people

Why do we call a dangerous person a 'loose cannon'?

Blame Teddy Roosevelt

How 'Skeevy' Became a Word

Our skeeviest article

6 Irish Words For People You Don't Like Very Much

How the Irish insult people

9 Insults That Make the Presidential Campaign Seem Civilized

Think campaign rhetoric is getting nastier?
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