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Insult
INSULT

Definition: [ ~ (to somebody/something) ] A remark or an action that is said or done in order to offend somebody.
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* All nine elements would, unfortunately (?), be in.


1. Purposeful and necessary in the opinion of talker and doer.

2. Deliberate. That is, it is known for certain that words or deed will hurt deeply. (And words or actions are what the person, giving insult, would not ordinarily take.)

3. Remark or action is specific and identifiable as an offensive comment or disgusting act - cannot be mistaken for something else, other than disparaging.

4. 'Stinging', but true. That is, what is said or done cannot be faulted, discredited or dismissed with a wave of the hand.

5. Person making remarks and doing thing considers or believes that recipient is deserving of offensive remark or action.

6. 'Painful', but bearable. That is, insulted party will not do what will be regretted, or take own life, as a direct consequence of what he or she heard or had.

7. The remarks cannot be replied. And what was done cannot be avenged, immediately or later. And no gesture can be made at the time as a response to 'rubbish' received. (Even if victim is planning seriously to pay the offender back.) In other words, insult will be gotten away with.

8. (Reserved.) (There is no real difference in the status or standing, intelligence or understanding, wealth or possession, etc., of who gives and who gets!)

9. Remark or action will never be regretted and apologized for, privately or publicly, by the offender.
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See perfect INSULT OUTBURST.

See perfect GUTTER (3).

See perfect REAL.





Quote: "He who puts up with insult invites injury". - Proverb.

Quote: "The best way to procure insults is to submit to them". - William Hazlitt.

Quote: "If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved". - Russell Lynes.

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