Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being insulted; apt to feel insulted; quick to take insult.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being insulted or affronted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
insulted .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But enough to not insult him [assuming he is insultable].
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Let us rather be insulted, whilst we are insultable.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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Yet there is one way in which you may possibly be insultable.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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Let us rather be insulted, whilst we are insultable.
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As the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery, and make them wait on his guests at table, so the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street, shopmen or barkeepers in hotels, and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us.
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As the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery and make them wait on his guests at table, so the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street, shopmen or bar-keepers in hotels, and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us.
Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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