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insultingly, adv.|ɪnˈsʌltɪŋlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an insulting manner; so as to insult; with scornful abuse, or treatment that wounds self-respect.
1623R. Bernard (title) Looke beyond Luther, or an Answere to that Question so often and so insultingly proposed by our adversaries, asking vs where this our Religion was before Luther's time. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 68 In the Fable of the Logg which Jupiter gave the Frogs for their King; when they became fearless of it, every one jumped insultingly upon it. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 140 Insultingly the wretch they toss, and gore. 1856Olmsted Slave States 288 Virginia now insultingly spurns from her councils all who suggest that slavery is ever to be eradicated. |