INSULTINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insultingly mean? 

• INSULTINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb INSULTINGLY has 2 senses:

1. in a disrespectful and insulting manner

2. in an unfair and insulting manner

  Familiarity information: INSULTINGLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSULTINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a disrespectful and insulting manner

Context example:

he behaves insultingly toward his parents

Pertainym:

insulting (expressing extreme contempt)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an unfair and insulting manner

Synonyms:

foully; insultingly

Context example:

this internationally known writer was foully condemned by the Muslim fundamentalists

 Context examples 

Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)