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    affront


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    1. I think that Smiler took my lack of interest in his deliveries of food as a personal affront


    2. Nicola grimaced at the direct affront to Dertois Law


    3. She took it as an affront that Frank had spoken to Shelagh and not asked for her


    4. An affront to whatever god it is the Red Catholics pay obeisance to


    5. A criminal act, whether committed by an individual against another individual or against a group of individuals, notwithstanding that such actions may be either random or pre-meditated, constitutes a crime against society inasmuch as every member of that society is considered a (potential) victim that should otherwise be provided equal protection under the law and that any crime, whatever the motive, directed against (the) one represents a (potential) affront against (the) many; especially when such crimes are committed indiscriminately, without rhyme or reason; that is to say, in a manner that renders every member of that society a (potential) victim subject to arbitrary or uncertain (criminal) designs


    6. These children were strictly chosen for their ability to follow the letter of the Law blindly and unerringly, to keep a watchful eye for signs of heresy and insubordination as well as any element that was an affront to the Pantheon and the Law, or anything that might defy the Law or its upholders in spirit or in letter


    7. It would be an affront to the Council if he could not serve uwe of the proper quality


    8. Private Mott of the 5th, was given fifty lashes and almost bled to death for, and I quote: ’Not being vigilant enough in the persecution of vile deeds that promoted sin, incurred the wrath of the Gods or were an affront to the Pantheon and the Ruling Council’


    9. He felt like his very being was an affront to man


    10. And you would dare insinuate before my very presence indeed, that my sermon is a charade, a mockery designed to bring you low? Do you think so highly of yourselves? And you have the ignorant audacity to call me a blasphemer and an affront to life

    11. It’s a direct affront to one of our foundations, the right of free speech


    12. As an added affront the administration has announced that it will not allow its self-appointed Czars to be called to testify before Congress to justify their existence or describe their functions


    13. We were; however, ‘the image of God’ (we have a soul that makes us His child!) and mankind had best wake up to that fact / belief before we face His Justice! --- The killing of an unborn child, at any stage of its development, is murder and an affront to both Our Creator and our Constitution!!


    14. "You mean that writer punk is a brother to one of our guys?" The CSAF seemed to take this as a personal affront to the untarnished name of the United States Air Force


    15. As they went about their work the magicians casually chatted, ‘I don’t know why the Su-Katii were so nervous about us holding up our end of the bargain? Had they any idea of the affront that the Tanarian council has caused us these past few months they would have realised that we would have carried out their work for free


    16. Rigid with passion at the affront to his dignity as a peace officer, Franklin restrained himself, knowing a lawsuit would further destabilize the already shaky ground on which he stood with the Sheriff, and lose him the job that did more than anything else to maintain his status among his peers


    17. ’ Above all else he seethed from the affront he had caused his pride and after bursting into the nearby summoning chamber; he knew he would have revenge


    18. She was followed by three nuns who hissed that I was an affront to decency; pointing at my bare toes


    19. An affront to his masculinity


    20. She said that while Vivek’s proposal was devoid of morality, Gautam’s proposition was an affront to her dignity

    21. Every glance, each swaggering movement was an affront


    22. The ‘even smaller than me’ statement was a personal affront


    23. With his legs crossed and his right arm resting across his paunch while his left hand balled in a fist covered his mouth, Feltus maintained his position without so much as a blink as the affront was delivered and secretly congratulated himself for having ruffled the feathers of this virtuous man who was evidently concerned about this matter coming into the open


    24. How dare he! The affront!


    25. can be served in this affront


    26. ‘’Incidents?! My son is paraded in front of cameras by the Communists, along with five other American aviators, and you call these simply incidents? This is nothing less than an affront to the United States, Madam Chase-Smith! What is our government doing to finally put these damn Communists back in their place? We should tell the Chinese that we will drop atomic bombs on them if they don’t return our pilots


    27. No weapons can be brought even to the shore of the lake, for it is an affront to the Rainmaker


    28. This is an affront to the true God, for Allah is


    29. Ingrid couldn’t help then feel some discouragement then: the racial situation in the United States in general and in the Southern states in particular was still in her mind a disgrace and an affront to the values she believed in and had fought for


    30. feeling that it was an unjustifiable affront to Zipporah, Miriam

    31. The believers who take a cartoon of their prophet with a ‘bomb in the turban’ as an affront to their ‘religion of peace’ don’t feel scandalized at all by the suicide bombers of Islam


    32. The Trilateral Commission on Hearings of Importance ruled it an activity that must be permitted, due to Abducted Ship Mazing being the official sport of the entire sector of the galaxy, which means banning or restricting it would be a gross affront to The Treaty of Manderbatt hammered out at the infamous Haurunbistle Tribunal


    33. Networks of neon signs, garish placards and unignorable billboards wipe out the lovely harmony of nature’s palette with loud hues that wound the eye and affront the soul of a few who long to see what’s hidden behind the screaming ugliness of all those ever-livid bruises


    34. Many among my colony would number this fourth affront as grounds for imprisonment


    35. Zar’s voice had risen with that last affront, and he calmed himself


    36. afrenta: the affront lies in Don Félix's insolent manner andthe masterful way in which he forces them to accept his terms withoutquestion


    37. Do you not see how this girl’s life is an affront to him, who was promised that by her hand alone his servant, McAdams, would be destroyed?”


    38. But your spiritual doctor takes your spiritual sore places as a kind of personal affront; at least, his manner often shows indignation in proportion as you are frank


    39. You tell him that his sins are an affront in the eyes of God


    40. The sheriff could not discern any serious affront caused by one person waving at another

    41. It was an affront


    42. consider this an affront to his person if he releases a man


    43. “For a slight affront the Confederacy entered into total war


    44. Of course, you will not do that unless you do have utmost confidence because that would not only be an affront to your own integrity, but would rebound on you if the person did not do the right thing


    45. a refusal as a personal affront


    46. Because of this hidden secret advantage of age, these undead things have become set in their ways: so set in their customs that every time they are forced to change how they practice their evil: that in itself is an affront to what they have been accustomed to for millions and hundreds of millions of years: without any living creature giving them any lip, without any living creature ever questioning what they do to these innocent life creations of pure innocence


    47. These transgressions against Self are an affront and aberration to the truth of the soul, and to the truth of the spirit manifest in conscious cognitions, feelings and emotions, and have the potential to adversely change Self’s nature, identity and personality


    48. And rather than viewing this information as an affront to human dignity, consider that human evolution from primates is perhaps a reality and thus liberating information


    49. Subconsciously I crossed my arms across my chest as I met his considering gaze with my best look of affront


    50. I gave her a mock look of affront, “Why what’s wrong with it?”

































    1. ’ Muttered Alastair, which sets Karen and I off debating whether men ever grow up, accompanied by the affronted comments of the male sections of the company … no-one, but no-one is ever going to believe this evening


    2. They are both personally affronted when they lose a patient


    3. Park released the bird, smiled as he stroked its colored plumage, then replaced it in the cage, and now the bird was affronted


    4. Intelligence and reason are affronted by laws that declare it’s OK to show in graphic detail someone being murdered or clear-felling forests, or killing in war; but it’s a criminal offence to show a penis


    5. Self-importance causes us to think we are the center of the universe, and we are therefore affronted at every turn that challenges our majesty, or perceived subservience


    6. The nation was ashamed and affronted; British minds went back to Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada; in effect, it spelled the end of the Royal Navy legend, which decreed: "in wartime no hostile warships would be permitted to neither approach so close to the English coast nor pass through what was proudly called the “English Channel”


    7. “Yes, sir of course” said the Chief looking affronted “one second low, four seconds high, steady


    8. 'Of course I am,' the UPS said, affronted


    9. He had to appear affronted, however, as he had a hard-arse image to keep up


    10. ” He shook off his confusion, his face now a picture of affronted indignation

    11. Mrs Astley looked affronted, unused to her son being so reactive


    12. Shocked that he had even asked her such a rude and personal question, it took a second for her to fully comprehend it, and when she did, Kathy struggled to a standing position, feeling both affronted and embarrassed by his intrusive question


    13. The scandalously jilted, the affronted, the run away from


    14. On the one hand one had been affronted, while on the other the Chief Secretary now realised he had erred in his judgement


    15. I do not believe that a felon would be affronted to be hung by the team of you


    16. During this altercation the Yoginis caught up and affronted Kalkin’s cortege


    17. The android seemed to be affronted


    18. She seemed quite affronted


    19. The pixie appeared to be affronted by her question


    20. I was touched by his apology, even as I was affronted by it

    21. Sparky affronted to the implication that he had gotten something wrong shot back, “There was a flood don’t you know! Not to mention several thousand years have gone by


    22. Affronted, Katie drew herself up another inch and shot back indignantly, “I don’t see what business that is of yours!”


    23. Affronted, she placed her hands on her hips and gave him her what-did-you-say look


    24. She played the part of being mock affronted by my question and in a way I was ashamed of myself


    25. The 'GOD, made known by Christ, though most benign, is not a Power to be 'mocked,’ affronted, or defied


    26. Raskolnikov had unwarily fixed a very long and direct look on him, so that he felt positively affronted


    27. Mistrustfully and with an affectation of being alarmed and almost affronted, he scanned Raskolnikov's low and narrow "cabin


    28. "Excuse me, sir," said Luzhin, affronted, and speaking with excessive dignity


    29. beg, as Noureddin publicly affronted me, that the execution might be in front of


    30. curtsy to him, saluted me, and seemed a little affronted that I had only

    31. places and slurs on the courage of the men in the field, but he took pleasure in tricking He not only affronted the town with insinuations of venality on the part of men in high the dignified citizenry into embarrassing situations


    32. ” I try my best to look affronted


    33. He was so affronted at a Butler becoming a gambler that when I came home blockading out of Charleston, Mother had to lie and slip off to see me


    34. He stared at the valley as if he was personally affronted by the steep drop off


    35. “We’ll return them,” Colin blurted, sounding affronted


    36. The Emperor, with the agitation of one who has been personally affronted, was finishing


    37. As for the disdained and affronted wives, what culinary battlements did they rear up? What counterattacks ensued? And if small battles, or skirmishes, were fought, did victories follow?


    38. "Don't be affronted," said she, laughing, "but it does put me in mind of some of the old heathen heroes, who, after performing great exploits in a foreign land, offered sacrifices to the gods on their safe return


    39. A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honour with him, to destroy them whenever encountered


    40. Mistrustfully and with an affectation of being alarmed and almost affronted, he scanned Raskolnikov’s low and narrow ‘cabin

    41. ‘Excuse me, sir,’ said Luzhin, affronted, and speaking with excessive dignity


    42. At the same time there were some among those who had been hitherto reverently devoted to the elder, who were almost mortified and personally affronted by this incident


    43. Some seemed to take Semyon Ivanovitch's behaviour very much to heart, and even to feel affronted by it


    44. My Lord Blantyre began now to have more consecutive recollections of that time of dreams; and when the night came he felt mightily injured, mightily affronted, to find that the shadow of the watcher in the rushlight against the wall belonged to a bent and aged figure, was a grotesque profile, instead of the mild gray angel that had soothed him hitherto


    1. He seemed to take pleasure not only in affronting the sincere and red-hot loyalties of Atlanta but in presenting himself in the worst possible light


    2. She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother’s great expectations, of Mrs


    3. Erskine for that purpose, were highly indecorous and insolent; that the repetition of the same intimation in his official letter dated the 4th of November, 1809, after he was apprised, by the asseveration of the Secretary of State, that the Executive Government had no such knowledge, and that if it had possessed such knowledge such arrangement would not have been entered into on the part of the United States, and after also being officially apprised that such intimation was inadmissible, was still more insolent and affronting; and that, in refusing to receive any further communications from him in consequence of these outrageous and premeditated insults, the Executive Government has manifested a just regard to its own dignity and honor, as well as to the character and interest of the American people


    4. An insinuation so insidious and affronting, cannot fail to excite the indignation and contempt of every patriotic heart in America


    5. Jackson of November 4th, is said, by the resolution, to be found "the still more insolent and affronting "repetition of the same insinuation


    1. (including) other inalienable rights, for that matter, afforded to every citizen; providing equal access and protection under the law and the right of every Individual to redress affronts to person and property without ruinous (material) effect on that individual or that individual‘s character or standing…


    2. ” Christians can get themselves very worked up about such matters and yet seem to turn a blind eye to some of the greatest affronts in society today


    3. {134} They then read again, in another part of the records of the house, where it was shewed how willing their Lord was to receive into his favour any, even any, though they in time past had offered great affronts to his person and proceedings


    4. The affronts that so consumed them, though, now existed only in history books


    5. Although that was not her intention, it was the correct way to respond to anonymous letters from a class accustomed by the affronts of history to bow before faits accomplis


    6. Then something quite unexpected hapj^ened to me : it was as though I had broken some chain that restrained me, as though all the affronts and insvdts of that day were concentrated in that moment in the loss of that himdred-rouble note


    7. I was practically delirious then ! But from my words it was manifest that of all the affronts I had suffered on that momentous day, the thing which most rankled in my heart, and was most vivid in my memory, was the insult I had received from Buring and from her; I should not otherwise have talked of nothing else in my delirium at Lambert's, but should have raved of Zerstchikov for example, but it was only of the former I had talked, as I learned afterwards from Lambert himself


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    Synonyms for "affront"

    affront insult diss slight offend provoke smart outrage snub impugn slur offence injury impertinence confront face meet

    "affront" definitions

    a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect


    treat, mention, or speak to rudely