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insult
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in·sult (nslt)
n.
A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.

insult
Medtalk noun Any stressful stimulus which, under normal circumstances, does not affect the host organism, but which may result in morbidity, when it occurs in a background of preexisting compromising conditions


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Jackson then added insult to injury by immediately hiring Sullivan to his staff.
Then, in 1899, Eliot quite gratuitously added insult to injury when, at the end of an article on educational reform in the Atlantic Monthly, he said the Jesuits and Moslems prescribed an unchanging "ecclesiastical" mode of education absurdly cut off from the "immense deepening and expanding of human knowledge in the nineteenth century, and the increasing sense of the individual's gifts and will power.
In an interview with The Advocate seven months after the tragedy, Addams discussed how the media added insult to injury.
 
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