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

but to persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief; It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A heart unfortified, or mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschooled ⓘ

Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, Not of that dye which their investments show, But mere implorators of unholy suits ⓘ

The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown. ⓘ

that incestuous, that adulterate beast ⓘ

your noble son is mad ⓘ

you are a fishmonger. ⓘ

Then I would you were so honest a man. ⓘ

You cannot take from me any thing that I will not more willingly part withal ⓘ

These tedious old fools! ⓘ

that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts. ⓘ

Buzz, buzz! ⓘ

I am pigeon-livered and lack gall ⓘ

Get thee to a nunnery ⓘ

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house ⓘ

Get thee to a nunnery ⓘ

You are naught, you are naught ⓘ

A villain kills my father ⓘ

this same villain send To heaven. ⓘ

Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! ⓘ

Alas, he's mad! ⓘ

the bloat king ⓘ

Who was in life a foolish prating knave. ⓘ

Mad as the sea and wind ⓘ

This mad young man ⓘ

I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. ⓘ

you false Danish dogs! ⓘ

The devil take thy soul! ⓘ

O, he is mad, Laertes. ⓘ

this water-fly ⓘ

for 'tis a vice to know him. ⓘ

This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head. ⓘ

He's fat, and scant of breath. ⓘ

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane ⓘ