It adds terrible insult to tragic injury for the victims themselves, who may understandably feel that a crime's effects on their lives are being ignored.
"It's a terrible insult to all female canines, which are, on the whole, rather nice creatures."
George misunderstands, only hearing the terrible insult to a Muslim: being called a pig.
However that might be taken as a terrible insult.
It was a terrible insult, to both of us.
You know it's a terrible insult to call someone a flathead, and even worse to say someone's mother is one.
Then to walk past him on the street and pretend that she didn't know him was a terrible insult.
For one thing, hitting was a terrible insult to the one you loved.
The term was a terrible insult, the equivalent of calling someone a eunuch.
That would be a terrible insult to Lord Toranaga, to her, to everyone!