Object

• prophet: Scores waved placards bearing angry messages, one declaring: " Behead the one who insults the prophet " .

• intelligence: RUBBISH A Customer from England, 30th November, 2004 Please do not insult the intelligence of women.

• anyone: It was not my intention to insult anyone or break any rules.

Converse of object

• hurl: May you find the response to an insult hurled at you in a dispute.

• avenge: When the husband Mehmet returned from military service he is said to have threatened dire action to avenge the insult to his wife.

• shout: It spends its days shouting insults at me through the bars of its cage.

• add: To add insult to injury, the scheme is proving a recipe for windfall profits.

• throw: The very names that were coined to describe their efforts started as insults thrown at them by the critics of the time.

• suffer: The Kitchen Bar however will suffer the ultimate insult, swallowed up to reappear in the bowels of the Victoria Square.

Adjective modifier

• gratuitous: The audience, carefully selected to be hostile, offered a series of gratuitous insults to the Prime Minister.

• calculated: The way the editor chose to report the results of the special congress was a calculated insult.

• homophobic: Witnesses reported hearing the attackers shout homophobic insults at Mr Dobrowski.

• gross: It was a gross insult to the competitors every single one of them.

• deliberate: In fact, the picture painted of him here amounts to a deliberate insult.

• petty: When the opposition has to resort to petty insults, you know they're on the defensive.

Modifying Another Word

• personally: Is Ken Livingstone going to personally insult all 55 Ambassadors and their countries?

Noun used with modifier

• trading: By now Alan, Gordon and Virgil were indulging in a round of pushing and shoving each other whilst trading insults.

• welfare: Question 2: How could large poultry flocks be killed to minimize welfare insult to the birds whilst achieving the aim of rapid killing?