affront

Converse of object

• put: Not that I would put an affront upon the learning of any of those honorable employments, much less upon their persons.
• take: You have an ego identification with your ideas and you take personal affront to those who differ with your thoughts on any subject.
• cause: He has allowed any member to raise a concern regarding the contents of any particular message without causing a direct affront to the individual.
• constitute: But it is also true that even the mildest depiction constitutes an affront of sorts to most unionists.
• become: Beyond that point it starts to become an affront to liberty.

Adjective modifier

• personal: But our sin is above all a personal affront to God.
• direct: He has allowed any member to raise a concern regarding the contents of any particular message without causing a direct affront to the individual.
• great: But for a very considerable minority, it was the greatest imaginable affront.
• gross: Paul B Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:30 am Post subject: A gross affront... Who the Devil are you?
• such: The Emperor threatened that if such affront were repeated, he would strike coins with words respecting Mohammad grievous to his followers.
• an: They are, as Mr Justice Sullivan said, an affront to justice.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: In both cases, I was almost affronted to find that I remembered almost none of the detail of their complex plots.
• not: This appears to me faint sketch of a system of Salvation which does not affront our reason and humanity.
• personally: Not only have you caused me to waste valuable time by not filling it in, I also feel personally affronted.
• so: A simple analogy may help to explain why right-thinking capitalists are so affronted by this phenomenon.
• slightly: To our delight they obliged, popping their heads up to stare back at us, albeit looking slightly affronted.