affront's Usage Examples:

In both cases, I was almost affronted to find that I remembered almost none of the detail of their complex plots.

Not only have you caused me to waste valuable time by not filling it in, I also feel personally affronted.

Jacques decided on the legality of suppressing the order of the Templars, holding that the pope would be serving the best interests of the church by pronouncing its suppression; but he rejected the condemnation of Boniface as a sacrilegious affront to the church and a monstrous abuse of the lay power.

Some of the philosophers who talked idly of the good old times of the republic, and thus indirectly encouraged conspiracy, provoked him into reviving the obsolete penal laws against this class, but only one, Helvidius Priscus, was put to death, and he had affronted the emperor by studied insults.

Catherine de' Medici was greatly incensed at this affront, and took her revenge by having the constable disgraced on the death of Henry II.

Though chosen to accompany the king to Asia as one of his thirty advisers (ouµ(30vX01), he was kept inactive and his influence was broken by studied affronts, and finally he was sent at his own request as envoy to the Hellespont.

, incensed by this affront, and the discontent aroused by the institutions of the.

A simple analogy may help to explain why right-thinking capitalists are so affronted by this phenomenon.

In June 1805 there came a last and intolerable affront to the emperors of Austria and Russia, who at that very time were seeking to put bounds to Napoleons ambition and to redress the balance of power.

Nudists claimed that an excess of shame and modesty bred psychological complexes, unhealthy relations between the sexes, and produced bodies that were both unhealthy and an affront to beauty.

Synonyms:

indignity, scandalisation, offensive activity, insult, scandalization, offense, offence, outrage, discourtesy,

Antonyms:

defence, civility, courtesy, graciousness, politeness,