Insult-to-injury Sentence Examples

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  • It would be adding insult to injury and committing a second evil, to repudiate a wife to whom you have made solemn vows.

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  • One day something happened which seemed to me to be adding insult to injury.

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  • At the end of 2009, Adam adds insult to injury by eloping with Sharon.

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  • The girdle can be seen as adding insult to injury and some might rather endure the discomfort of the hernia than add the embarrassment of the girdle.

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