"Have a nice day" is a subtle insult, and instinctively we all know this.

He remembered when she couldn't even understand a joke, much less make subtle insults.

The article had many other slurs and subtle insults.

Stam was puzzled when he could detect no physiological response to his subtle insult.

He accepted the subtle insult behind the irony.

To leave Arilinn after such a brief time smacked of subtle insult, and voices had been raised.

He said nothing else and Maggie quite understood the subtle insult.

Or if F'lar was still seething from the subtle insult implicit in the timing of this meeting.

He was young enough to have heard only the clear praise and completely missed the subtle insult.

Still, she could see by the twitch of his lips that he caught the subtle insult.