"insult one's intelligence" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: insults one's intelligence [present, singular, third-person], insulting one's intelligence [participle, present], insulted one's intelligence [participle, past], insulted one's intelligence [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} insult one's intelligence (third-person singular simple present insults one's intelligence, present participle insulting one's intelligence, simple past and past participle insulted one's intelligence)
  1. (idiomatic) To treat someone as if they are not intelligent or enough to understand something obvious. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-insult_one's_intelligence-en-verb-mWarNlOx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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