Insults in The Comedy of Errors

Notice: While using the sorting box on the left, that the intended use is not that of a filter system. Instead, when any of the checkboxes is selected any insult which has a matching attribute value will be displayed. E.g. If I have selected slander and direct speech, I will get insults that have slander with indirect speech and direct insults with types other than slander. While this system is confusing, it is a product of time limits placed upon the creation of this system.

Insult Type

Personal Attack

Name Calling

Sex/Gender-based Insult

Backhanded Compliment

Slander

Gender

Male to Male

Male to Female

Female to Male

Female to Female

Relationship

Parent to Child

Child to Parent

Sibling to Sibling

Friend to Friend

Couple to Couple

Acquaintance to Acquaintance

Self

Speech Act

Direct

Indirect
Maxim

Qualitative

Quantitative

Relevance

Manner

Illocutionary Acts

Representative

Directive

Commissive

Expressive

Declarative

old man ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: acq-acq
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
A trusty villain ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
sir knave ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
Thy mistress' marks? what mistress, slave, hast thou? ⓘ
Insult type: pAttack
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
sir knave ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
villain ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: female-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
villain ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
Wast thou mad ⓘ
Insult type: pAttack
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
Villain ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing. ⓘ
Insult type: backComp
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
the plain bald pate of father Time himself ⓘ
Insult type: pAttack
Gender:
Relationship:
Relationship State:
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
harlot brow ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender:
Relationship: self
Relationship State:
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
I am possessed with an adulterate blot; My blood is mingled with the crime of lust ⓘ
Insult type: pAttack
Gender:
Relationship: self
Relationship State:
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
thou snail, thou slug, thou sot! ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: female-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: expressive
Maxim: man
I am an ape. ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender:
Relationship: self
Relationship State:
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass. ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: female-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
'Tis true; she rides me and I long for grass. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen
Gender:
Relationship: self
Relationship State:
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
I think thou art an ass. ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
I am an ass ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender:
Relationship: self
Relationship State:
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
wondrous fat marriage. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
Swart, like my shoe, but her face nothing like so clean kept: for why, she sweats; a man may go over shoes in the grime of it. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
Noah's flood could not do it. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
will not measure her from hip to hip. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip: she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out countries in her. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
in her buttocks: I found it out by the bogs. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
I found it by the barrenness; hard in the palm of the hand. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
In her forehead; armed and reverted, making war against her heir. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no whiteness in them; but I guess it stood in her chin, by the salt rheum that ran between France and it. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
upon her nose, all o'er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
this drudge, or diviner ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
There's none but witches do inhabit here ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender:
Relationship:
Relationship State:
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
She is too big, I hope, for me to compass. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless every where; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind, Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall slander
Gender: female-male
Relationship: spouse-spouse
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
is this Mistress Satan? ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
It is the devil. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: acq-acq
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
Nay, she is worse, she is the devil's dam ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: acq-acq
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
here she comes in the habit of a light wench ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: acq-acq
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
out of doubt Antipholus is mad ⓘ
Insult type: pAttack slander
Gender: female-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
Thou whoreson, senseless villain! ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall pAttack
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an ass. ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall pAttack
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
poor distressed soul! ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall pAttack
Gender: female-male
Relationship: spouse-spouse
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
the kitchen vestal scorned you. ⓘ
Insult type: sexGen slander
Gender: male-female
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
pale and deadly looks: They must be bound and laid in some dark room. Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day? And why dost thou deny the bag of gold? I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth. And, gentle master, I received no gold; But I confess, sir, that we were locked out. ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender:
Relationship:
Relationship State:
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both. ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall pAttack
Gender: female-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall pAttack sexGen
Gender: male-female
Relationship: spouse-spouse
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: qual
how pale and wan he looks! ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: female-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: pos
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
peevish officer ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: female-male
Relationship: acq-acq
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
O most unhappy strumpet! ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall sexGen
Gender: male-female
Relationship: spouse-spouse
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: relev
villain ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
Thou art a villain ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: acq-acq
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
defy thee for a villain. ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall pAttack
Gender: male-male
Relationship: friend-friend
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
fool ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: female-male
Relationship: acq-acq
Relationship State: neutral
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller, A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living dead man ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall pAttack
Gender: male-male
Relationship: acq-acq
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man
this pernicious slave ⓘ
Insult type: nameCall
Gender: male-male
Relationship: acq-acq
Relationship State: neg
Speech Act: direct
Illocutionary Type:
Maxim:
I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup. ⓘ
Insult type: pAttack
Gender:
Relationship:
Relationship State:
Speech Act: indirect
Illocutionary Type: representative
Maxim: man