Encyclopedia > Insult

  Article Content

Insult

An insult is a phrase or an act intended to affront or demean someone. Insults may be categorized as follows:
  • Insult to intelligence
  • Insult to education
  • Insult to natural appearance
  • Insult to behavior

Profanity is frequently used as part of insults to strengthen their emotional impact.

The concept of fighting words has a definition in American Constitutional law. See terms of disparagement.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Sakhalin

... rapids and shallows, and enters the Sea of Okhotsk. The Poronai flows south-south-east to the Gulf of Patience or Shichiro Bay, on the south-east coast. Three other ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 29.5 ms