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They now have to think twice before using “clown” as a punchline or an insult.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

All-Star closer Edwin Díaz has blown four saves while saving just seven games this season in between stints on the injured list — Tucker and Díaz, insult to injury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

To add insult to Artyom's many injuries, the wounded Russian soldier in the bed opposite was paid five times as much.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

It is now an offence for players or officials to insult someone because of their race, religion, ethnicity, colour, nationality or background.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Finn knew she didn’t mean it as an insult.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Underlying those insults was a geopolitical outlook that positioned the US primarily as a hemispheric power entitled to exert political, military, and economic influence over its immediate region – and that most definitely included Canada.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

CNN released a statement praising Holmes for asking “a tough, relevant, and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people” and calling personal insults “beneath the office.”

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

He added, “I’ve received a lot of insults in my day, but that might be the lowest.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Like Owens, Davis endured humiliations off the field: threats, insults, segregated hotels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Some of the Death Eaters called insults at the centaurs as they left them behind.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Police say the brothers insulted a woman during an altercation over loud noise.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Musk has offered to fund a private prosecution against the police over its handling of the murder, and insulted the Hampshire Police force.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Woodson was probably more insulted by being called an intellectual, but the episode speaks volumes about why he parted ways with traditional civil-rights leaders in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Musk said director Nolan has "grossly insulted the Greek people", and replied "true" to a meme of a man supposedly dancing on Homer's grave.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

I wondered if I had insulted him by comparing his life to mine.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

According to Human Rights Watch, "several penal code provisions, as well as the cybercrime law, criminalise speech deemed insulting to religion, the emir or foreign leaders".

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb seems to take great delight in insulting you, especially after the politician River was supposed to protect gets hit on the head by a pot of paint and dies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

This felt particularly insulting because I really, really love sandwiches—not merely as lunch, but as a form.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

"The chasteness of Nolan's version bugs me as it's insulting he doesn't trust audiences to grapple with this hero's moral complexity - and I'm gut-sick that he's probably right."

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

"Why are you insulting me? I haven't been rude to you! Why do you call me a mouse?"

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl