Insultingly stupid

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insulting
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adjective
Synonyms of insulting
: giving or intended to give offense : being or containing an insult (see INSULT entry 2 sense 1)
Without the wit, of course, such sentiments would be construed as deeply insulting …
—The American Scholar
… pasted insulting bumper stickers on their vehicles …
—James A. Michener
… considered the proposal so impracticable as to be insulting.
—Alice Adams
The book is "dumbed down" to an almost insulting level.
—Joel Bangilan
insultingly

 adverb
But always his triumphs are the triumphs of a highly sensitive man: a man must feel insults before he can so insultingly and splendidly avenge them.
—G. K. Chesterton
He is a gifted preacher, fashioning sermons that are neither inaccessibly erudite nor insultingly shallow.
—Kevin Sack
insulting

2 of 2
present participle of INSULT entry 1
Examples of insulting in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
This is both insulting and threatening, to ruling men.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
Poems about the trees in Massachusetts or those contemplating winter in Vermont felt insulting to me.
—Jos; Olivarez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
While that may sound respectful, employees can consider such phrasing to be insulting, as workers have a legal right to organize.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
Fact is, the very idea of repackaging Mean Girls is insulting.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
This means that the use of offensive, derogatory or insulting language alone does not automatically turn every regrettable incident into a hate crime.
—Douglas S. Lavine, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
But to that effect, the way it’s used in a common, insulting kind of way, [that is] absolutely not [true].
—Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2024
But that's why HP's attempt to look sympathetic to printer users is so insulting: How HP has carried out its business looks more like prioritizing dollars over customers than like empathy for their frustrations.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2023
Then wine — which had previously been considered insulting, as if decent wine would not be provided — was added.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023