Citations:microinsult

noun

 * 2000, Carmen Webb, Taking My Place in Medicine: A Guide for Minority Medical Students, SAGE (ISBN 9780761918097), page 176:
 * If you are a Mexican American interested in attending a medical school, you will have to learn to deal with microinsults, although it will be very difficult. Microinsults are always subtle and cowardly, and therefore very difficult to handle. They never quite seem to require a confrontation but can be very irritating and distracting. Thus, you will generally feel you have more to lose than win if you  respond in a frontal attack to situations like these.
 * 2014, Mary Yu Danico, Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia, SAGE Publications (ISBN 9781483365602):
 * Microinsults represent subtle snubs, frequently unknown to the perpetrator but clearly convey a hidden insulting message to the recipient of color. Whether being constantly asked, “Where were you born?”; whether being criticized for the smell of one's lunch choices; whether being asked, “Why are you so quiet? We want to know what you think. Be more verbal”; whether being told, to “Speak up  more”; or whether being told “You speak good English”; microaggressions play out  ...
 * 2018, Joan C. Chrisler, Carla Golden, Lectures on the Psychology of Women: Fifth Edition, Waveland Press (ISBN 9781478637028), page 354:
 * In the first two, microinsults and microinvalidations, the microaggressors are not aware of the offense, whereas in the case of microassaults, they are more likely to be aware of what they are saying.

verb

 * 2007, Editors of O, The Oprah Magazine, O's Guide to Life: The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine (Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews and Inspiration) (Oxmoor House, ISBN 9780848731212):
 * They're largely nonverbal, mostly communicated through nods, eve contact, head turns, and gestures such as glancing at your watch when another person is talking. They can be positive (microadvantages) or negative (microinequities). You can be micropraised, microadored, and microsupported. Or microinsulted, microignored, microjudged, microgoaded, and microdismissed. If vou were to look at microinequities through a Law & Order lens, people would fall into one of two camps: ...