Answer to "Slap in the face" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word INSULT , but the solution may also be SNUB which is one of the most recent solution (2018 in Wall Street Journal).

Slap in the face crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
INSULT	25 %	6
SNUB	25 %	4
REBUFF	25 %	6
AFFRONT	25 %	7

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Slap in the face

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• slap on the wrist
• butter face
• lip flap
• gut punch
• clenched fist
• police beat
• fake book
• shell shock
• the devil
• raised fist
• piece of cake
• deep cut

Crossword Answer definitions

INSULT noun

1. Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; a particular act or statement having this effect.
2. Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
3. Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
4. An assault or attack; (specifically) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
5. An act of leaping upon.

INSULT verb

1. To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
2. To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
3. To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).
4. To leap or trample upon.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result INSULT

• Affront
• "Yo Mama" joke line, e.g.
• It may be added to injury
• Rickles riposte
• Dig
• Dis
• Offensive remark
• Slight
• Don Rickles specialty
• Refusal of hospitality, often

More clues leading to the result SNUB

• Rebuff
• Leave off the nominations
• Oscar ___ (the Academy's choice not to nominate a critically acclaimed work)
• Turn one's nose up
• Un-invite, maybe
• Slight
• Social insult
• Ignore contemptuously
• Affront
• High-hat

More clues leading to the result REBUFF

• Blunt refusal
• Slap in the face
• Give the cold shoulder
• Blunt turndown
• Snub
• Blunt rejection
• Abrupt rejection
• Abrupt snub
• Snub.
• Say no to

More clues leading to the result AFFRONT

• Deliberate insult
• Act of disrespect
• Indignity
• Insult
• Pique
• Slap in the face
• Offend by open disrespect.
• Slight.
• Intentional insult.
• Insult.