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affront

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He seems peeved that she's gotten old, as if it were a personal affront.

Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.

The reality-based community might have a difficult time fending off these two fronts of affront.

This week, Trierweiler, 49, matches that public affront with a statement of her own—in 320 unforgiving pages.

What had been shrugged off in, say, California, was greeted in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio, and Michigan as an affront.

Not suspecting her motive, he represented the hazard of putting so great an affront on the favourite of the Empress.

I opposed this, fearing, of course, that the French and even the Gentiles might interpret this as an affront to our faith.

The vote which required the King to discard them merely because they were what he himself was seemed to him a personal affront.

He was even ready to swallow such an affront as that, thinking it might be offered him under a misconception of his meaning.

That the very novelty of the venture will pass as an affront to some portion of his readers there is only reason to anticipate.

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On this page you'll find 138 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to affront, such as: indignity, provocation, slight, abuse, brickbat, and injury.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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