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Top 10 List of the Most Offensive Shakespearean Insults<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Ashleigh Gardner<\/p>\n

December 14, 2016<\/p>\n<\/font>

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It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Shakespeare — his poetic language, his characters, and\u00a0especially\u00a0<\/em>his mean, colorful, and outlandish jibes. When it comes to insults, Shakespeare slays.<\/p>\n

#10 —\u00a0From\u00a0Richard III\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cThou poisonous bunch-back\u2019d toad!\u201d (Act I, scene iii)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"4\"<\/p>\n

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#9 — From\u00a0All\u2019s Well That Ends Well<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cA most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.\u201d (Act III, scene vi)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"111\"<\/p>\n

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#8 — From Measure For Measure<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cThou art a flesh-monger, a fool and a coward.\u201d (Act V, scene i)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"6\"<\/p>\n

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#7 —\u00a0From Coriolanus<\/i><\/h4>\n

“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”\u00a0<\/span>(Act II, Scene i)<\/p>\n

\"7\"<\/p>\n

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#6 —\u00a0From Macbeth<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cThou cream faced loon.\u201d (Act V, Scene iii)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"2\"<\/p>\n

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#5 —\u00a0From Henry IV Part 2<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cYou scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I\u2019ll tickle your catastrophe!\u201d (Act II, scene i)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"333\"<\/p>\n

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#4 —\u00a0From The Taming of the Shrew<\/i><\/h4>\n

“You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!”\u00a0<\/span>(Act IV, scene i)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"9\"<\/p>\n

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#3 —\u00a0From As You Like It<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cYour brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage.\u201d (Act II, scene vii)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"8\"<\/p>\n

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#2 —\u00a0From Henry IV Part 1<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cYou starvelling, you eel-skin, you dried neat\u2019s-tongue, you bull\u2019s-pizzle, you stock-fish\u2013O for breath to utter what is like thee!-you tailor\u2019s-yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck!\u201d\u00a0<\/span>(Act 2, Scene iv)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"110\"<\/p>\n

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#1 —\u00a0From King Lear<\/i><\/h4>\n

“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.” (Act II, scene ii)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"555\"<\/p>\n

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