Word Meanings - RAILINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With scoffing or insulting language.

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• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• INSULTING
  Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv. Syn. -- Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent.
• SCOFFERY
  The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.
• INSULTER
  One who insults. Shak.
• SCOFFINGLY
  In a scoffing manner. Broome.
• SCOFF
  1. Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak. 2. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• SCOFFER
  One who scoffs. 2 Pet. iii. 3.
• INSULTATION
  1. The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. Feltham. 2. Exultation. Is. xiv. .
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• INSULTABLE
  Capable of being insulted or affronted. Emerson.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.