Insultingly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an insulting manner; to a degree that causes insult.

    "They made an insultingly low bid to buy the house."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an unfair and insulting manner wordnet
  2. 2
    in a disrespectful and insulting manner wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
disparaginglydisparaginglyfoullyharshly

Example

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"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority."

Etymology

From insulting + -ly.

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