affront Definition
af·front (ə frunt′)
transitive verb
- to insult openly or purposely; offend; slight
- to confront defiantly
- Archaic to come before; meet; face
Etymology: ME afronten < OFr afronter, to encounter face to face < ML *affrontare < ad-, to + frons, forehead
noun
an open or intentional insult; slight to one's dignity
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affront Usage Examples
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.
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