Chicago's rough-and-tumble City Council has passed a measure intended to curb sexual, racial or ethnic insults at committee hearings.

Teresa Harris, a manager with a Tennessee truck leasing firm, didn't fall apart under the sexual insults of the company's president, Charles Hardy.

Some women reporters regularly receive sexual insults and threats.

"proeksel" : sexual insult, meaning unknown but claimed to be Serbo-Croat.

Over the years, the complainants said, women at the Mint were subjected to sexual insults, jokes and pornographic materials by many of their 400 male co-workers.

Whether dancing, playing a washboard or swapping sexual insults, everyone has his or her own style in this sequence.

It lets us feel smart without having to act smart or be smart, and it is the key to ethnic, racial and sexual insult humor.

He cited a list of obscenities and vulgarities, physical violence, and racial and sexual insults.

He hurled sexual insults in their direction.

Still, she added, sexual insults are worse than other kinds - disparaging intelligence or athletic prowess, for instance.