Idiom
insult one's intelligence
Meaning
To treat someone as if they are not intelligent or enough to understand something obvious.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Don't lie to me, it insults my intelligence.”
“The boss tried to explain the simple error as a complex technical glitch, which really insulted my intelligence.”
“By offering such a transparently dishonest excuse for his failure, the politician insulted the intelligence of every voter in the room.”
Examples
simple
“Don't lie to me, it insults my intelligence.”
contextual
“The boss tried to explain the simple error as a complex technical glitch, which really insulted my intelligence.”
complex
“By offering such a transparently dishonest excuse for his failure, the politician insulted the intelligence of every voter in the room.”
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