insulted

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Insulted by Cosby’s criticisms, Murphy got his revenge by doing a devastating impression of Cosby in “Eddie Murphy Raw.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

Insulted, an Alabama official filed a libel suit against the newspaper.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

Insulted, Rouhani declined the invitation to meet privately.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2019

As his grandmother, Modalala, came into the room, we started looking at books on the next shelf, including Dostoevsky’s Humiliated and Insulted.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2018

Insulted Freedom bled,—I felt her cause, And drew my sword to vindicate her laws, From principle, and not from vain applause.

From Paul Jones by Hapgood, Hutchins