insulting gesture

There was no insulting gesture with a musket this time.

None of the fighters took a bite or a sip, an insulting gesture.

Mute he might be, but he'd raised the skills of obscene and insulting gesture to high art.

To them it is a very, very insulting gesture.

It was an oddly insulting gesture whose import was not lost on the king.

The "mano in fica" is still used as a highly insulting gesture.

One could signal this demand with an inescapably insulting gesture, such as throwing his glove before him.

Morik cried, making several lewd and insulting gestures at those soldiers staring down from the wall.

Merrith climbed to her feet, made insulting gestures at the hunters who tried to shout her down.

The ve- hicle departed, with Navarth making an insulting gesture at the woman's back.

It can be used as an insulting gesture, as to suggest your brains should be blown out.

With an easy and insulting gesture he caught the man's shirtfront with one hand and lifted him off the floor.

He made an insulting gesture.

He said car thieves became so brazen that some went as far as making insulting gestures to officers as they sped off.

Courier did have one rough moment in the second round, when he made an insulting gesture to a chair umpire and incurred a well-publicized $1,000 fine.

The fight arose when his friend, Brendan Devine, was accused of making an insulting gesture or comment to a woman in the Co social club.

"Any sympathy I had for that woman is fast giving place to total antipathy," Rimbol said, making an even more insulting gesture at the space worker's back.

In the United Kingdom and some other English speaking countries, it is an obscene insulting gesture of defiance when performed with the palm facing inwards.

Each of the gully dwarves actually stopped to look at him before they went on to make insulting gestures at their pur- suer with their feet.

Tony shows no sympathy for Junior, and offers a single five dollar bill to Janice, an insulting gesture designed to demonstrate his indifference to Junior's predicament.

The Rutgers University Senate approved a sweeping anti-harassment policy for its employees yesterday that would prohibit ethnic jokes, insulting gestures and obscene voice mail messages.

The final straw was when his entire speech was drowned in hoots and insulting gestures from a leftist crowd, all heard and seen on television across both Germanys.

People looked up and saw Bert making what he meant to be genial salutations, but what they considered, in view of the feminine outcry, to be insulting gestures.

The pills were a treatment for the socially unacceptable symptoms of Tourette's Disease, whose sufferers involuntarily spoke obscenities and made insulting gestures no matter where they were.

It used to be said that the insulting gesture, (called fico), of holding one's fist with the thumb in between the middle and forefinger came by its origin from this event.