Word: insultable
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...could invent some form of annoyance more offensive or humiliating. No one stopped to look at the question from the other standpoint. No one thought it was an unmanly thing for four or five men to enter a man's room, and knowing him to be powerless to insult him in every way. Such an amusement from some distorted way of looking at it was held quite worthy of gentlemen. So, looking back, it seems indeed to be a source of congratulation to the college that all such performances are banished to the past. Nor has this change taken place...
Such a breach of the custom, so long established as to be almost law, would be a disgrace to its officers and would very seriously affect the feelings of the Commonwealth towards the college, for the people would not stop to discriminate or to remember that the insult was not really the act of the old and time-honored college, but merely a venting of spleen on the part of the narrow-minded and prejudiced men who, unfortunately, chance for the moment to represent her. [Wendell Phillips...
...defence. When something is said on the protectionist side which shows a spirit of fair discussion, it may be worth while for our instructors to point out to us through lectures what they believe to be errors in the protectionist arguments, but it would seem almost an insult to our intelligence to point out the absurd falacies in these pamphlets of the Society for the Protection of American Industries...
...consideration the deturs, scholarships, commencement rank, membership of the Phi Beta Kappa, - all of which depend primarily upon the marks at examinations - it is only fair to the others that such students should be effectually prevented from receiving more than they deserve. The presence of the proctor is no insult to our honor. It is a maxim of general application that "the law was not made for the many...
...also to speak of "defeating Harvard and Princeton at the same time in Harvard's own back-yard," thereby insinuating that the referee worked against Yale in favor of Harvard, when, as every body knows, it was for Princeton's advantage to have Yale win, it seems that insult has been added to injury. Not content, however, to let matters rest here, the Yale News felt itself called upon to uphold the tone of its college by directly insulting the captain of our team, covertly charging him with connivance with Princeton to cheat Yale. What grounds the News...