Insulting
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

OFF
Kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

4 letters

COLD
The sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"

COOL
Loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"

FOUL
An act that violates the rules of a sport

RUDE
Belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

5 letters

PUSHY
Marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young executive"; "a pushful insurance agent"

SNIDE
Expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"

6 letters

UPPISH
(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"

UPPITY
Presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times

7 letters

FORWARD
A position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team

ABUSIVE
Characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"

8 letters

SCORNFUL
Expressing extreme contempt

INSOLENT
Marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

ARROGANT
Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

BACKHAND
A return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke

FAMILIAR
A friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"

PERSONAL
A short newspaper article about a particular person or group

SCURRILE

9 letters

ATROCIOUS
Exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

AUDACIOUS
Disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit"

BUMPTIOUS
Offensively self-assertive

DEGRADING
Harmful to the mind or morals; "corrupt judges and their corrupting influence"; "the vicious and degrading cult of violence"

HUBRISTIC

INJURIOUS
Harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"

INSULTING
Expressing extreme contempt

OBTRUSIVE
Sticking out; protruding

PRESUMING

OFFENSIVE
Morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"

10 letters

DISDAINFUL
Expressing extreme contempt

BACKHANDED
Roundabout or ambiguous; "attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity"; "a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal"

CALUMNIOUS
(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

DEROGATORY
Expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"

IRREVERENT
Not revering god

LEFTHANDED

OUTRAGEOUS
Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

PROCACIOUS

SCURRILOUS
Expressing offensive reproach

11 letters

HUMILIATING
Causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"

OVERWEENING
Presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times

UNSPEAKABLE
Defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy"; "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness"; "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"

12 letters

CONTUMELIOUS
Arrogantly insolent

PRESUMPTUOUS
Excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"

UNFLATTERING
Showing or representing unfavorably; "an unflattering portrait"; "an uncomplimentary dress"

VITUPERATIVE
Marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"

CONTEMPTUOUS
Expressing extreme contempt

16 letters

OVERPRESUMPTUOUS