insultry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“Well,” he said, “that fellow talked kind of rough to me, and I thought I might have something done to him for insultry.”"
- "The complex ridden people whose main intellectual hobby seemed to be the “art” of insultry to anybody who could not speak what they called French."
- "The guest will be that sardonic sultan of insultry, the bad[-]mouthing broadcasting behemoth from the Bronx, Howard Cosell."
- "There are several entries devoted to the more sulphuric excretions of the Chingford Skinhead in this encyclopaedia of political insultry."
- "This may not seem wise to say at a time when the American airwaves are turning blue with the gratuitous violence and insultry of rap groups, such as 2 Live Crew, and comedians, such as Andrew “Dice” Clay."
- "At one point in your limited attempt toward sophisticated insultry, you said that Norm would have to be capable of losing an argument with green-eyed algae (or some such drivel)."
Etymology
From insult + -ry.