Maltreat vs Insult - What's the difference?
maltreat | insult | Related terms |
To treat badly, to abuse.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 217:
*:he received a telegram from the prime minister ordering that on no account were Yacef and Zohra Drif to be maltreated in any way.
(obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
*, II.3.3:
To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
(obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
* Savage
* 1987 , Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda :
Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
(medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
* 2006 , Stephen G. Lomber, Jos J. Eggermont, Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex (page 415)
* 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 96:
(obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
Maltreat is a related term of insult.
As verbs the difference between maltreat and insult
is that maltreat is to treat badly, to abuse while insult is (obsolete|intransitive) to behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).As a noun insult is
an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.maltreat
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Verb
(en verb)insult
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Verb
(en verb)- thou hast lost all, poor thou art, dejected, in pain of body, grief of mind, thine enemies insult over thee, thou art as bad as Job […].
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (to offend) abuse, affront, offend, slight * See alsoAntonyms
*complimentNoun
(en noun)- the ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief
- To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
- The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
- Within the complex genome of most organisms there are alternative multiple pathways of proteins which can help the individual cell survive a variety of insults , for example radiation, toxic chemicals, heat, excessive or reduced oxygen.
- (Dryden)