Insult-to-injury Definition

noun
Harm, especially verbal, added to another, usually more substantive.
The cross-examination of the plaintiff was just insult to injury, blaming the victim.
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Origin of Insult-to-injury

  • From add insult to injury

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Insult-to-injury Sentence Examples

  • It would be adding insult to injury and committing a second evil, to repudiate a wife to whom you have made solemn vows.

  • One day something happened which seemed to me to be adding insult to injury.

  • At the end of 2009, Adam adds insult to injury by eloping with Sharon.

  • The girdle can be seen as adding insult to injury and some might rather endure the discomfort of the hernia than add the embarrassment of the girdle.

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