insulting letter

"Would you like to read the most insulting letter one reigning monarch has ever sent to another?"

Never again did he write an insulting letter.

Pushkin's jealousy made him write an insulting letter to d'Anthès's adoptive father.

Don't you think, really, that this was a pretty insulting letter for that man to be asking you to hand your son?"

In the meantime, years of insulting letters had passed between Timur and Bayezid.

In protest against all the massacres, the representatives of the major powers addressed an insulting letter to the sultan.

Had not the old Prince sent them insulting letters some years ago asking them never to see him again nor to communicate with him again?

However, following recent media reports that he wrote insulting letters to the Princess, he has reluctantly decided that he must publicly correct these allegations.

The conflict, overall, was the culmination of years of insulting letters exchanged between Timur and Bayezid.

"Write an insulting letter to the president," advises David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, "and you get an appointment."

Lucas looked startled to be feeling the edge of an apologia that was, Conner realized, principally excited by the preposterous and insulting letter he had been reading.

In a particularly insulting letter about Schelling, Kierkegaard wrote to his brother, Peter Kierkegaard:

While in exile Luis began writing insulting letters to the Captain General, which resulted in Luis being summoned to a court martial.

We only need, however, to say that there is a dictatorship in Cuba too, and we receive tons of insulting letters from people finding excuses for that dictatorship.

However, Governor Maitland rejected the treaty and sent an insulting letter back to the Xhosa paramount-chief, demanding greater acts of submission and servility.

"I've always been a partisan of the insulting letter, in the Dadaist and surrealist tradition, sent by intellectuals to challenge famous people's pretensions," Mr. Godin explained.

Prior to his arrival, Hugh allegedly sent an arrogant, insulting letter to Eastern Roman Emperor Alexius I Comnenus.

The Sultan hoped to lure Ismail into an open battle before his troops starved to death, and began writing insulting letters to the Shah, accusing him of cowardice:

When an insulting letter supposedly from Lord Orville devastates her and makes her believe she misperceived him, she returns home to Berry Hill and falls ill.

A dark chapter in the town's history occurred on January 30, 1885, after a black saloon keeper named Ebenzer Fowler allegedly sent an insulting letter to a white women in the town.

On 29 March 1899, the British Vice Consul wrote a very stern and insulting letter to him accusing his camp of stealing the gun and asking him to return it immediately.

- To quote the admirable Gerald Kaufman MP on the same page, "rarely have I read such utter claptrap" as Dr Sean Gabb displays in his insulting letter.

Finally, Sir Clement Willoughby writes to Evelina, confessing that he had written the insulting letter (she had already suspected this), hoping to separate Evelina and Lord Orville.

Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, has made a public denial of news reports that he sent Diana, Princess of Wales, insulting letters calling her a "harlot" and a "trollop."