• INSULT

1. s. contumelia (a wrong done to one’s honor): offensio (a state of mortified feeling; but also the act that causes it): injuria (an insult felt to be a wrong): opprobrium (insult conveyed by reproachful words). To look upon anything as an insult, aliquid in or ad contumeliam accipere; ignominiae loco ferre aliquid; ignominiae or probro habere aliquid. To put an insult upon anybody, contumeliam alicui imponere; aliquem ignominia afficere; ignominiam alicui imponere or injungere: to have an insult put upon one, ignominia affici; contumelia affici.

2. v. contumeliam alicui imponere: aliquem contumelia insequi: contumeliis insectari: maledictis vexare (to insult with insolent words): sugillare (insult scornfully, contemptuously): offendere aliquem (to insult, displease, whether intentionally or not): aliquem ignominia afficere: ignominiam alicui imponere, injungere (of gross insults, causing public disgrace). To be insulted, ignominia or contumelia affici; offendi (to feel insulted). To insult with words, verbis or voce vulnerare, violare: contumeliam alicui dicere: to feel insulted, injuriam sibi factam putare; at anything, aliquid in or ad contumeliam accipere; *aliqua re se laesum or violatum putare.