affront

Some have apologized for the affront and consoled customers, helping them move through the stages of grief to acceptance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“It is the facts of this case that are an affront for the court and should be an affront to the public.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

“It’s of course an affront to the victims of the Holocaust to to call Germany to abandon its culture of memory, but it’s also an imminent danger to German democracy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

His happiness is an affront to their own chronic displeasure.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

“I am surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

The exploitation of the poor, migrants and women are also described as affronts to human dignity.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024

Californians are unsettled, anxious and, in some cases, livid over homelessness, soaring gas prices, obscene housing costs, crime and all manner of affronts that undermine California’s golden promise — not to mention their day-to-day lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

She has embraced her identity while refusing to let affronts to it distract her.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2022

That this should make one acutely alert to affronts, even if micro.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022

But no state could long tolerate the affronts which English seamen offered Spain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

"He brings in the female demographic because he is so sexy - but he appeals to men. He's an honest, good, authentic, down-to-earth type of individual. So you don't really get affronted by him."

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

An afterthought if not a redheaded stepchild, though expect affronted fellow media outlets to freak out because of what NBC News once was, not what it is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

But it wasn’t just Catholics who were affronted.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

And all indications are that he is prepared to inflict considerable economic and environmental damage to assuage his affronted pride.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024

He looks up at me, affronted, almost startled.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

He was a peacock: intent on blinding small people with his brilliance, affronting an older generation he detested and belittling everyone but himself - especially Vivienne.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022

He added that the imposing structure of his 1881 novel was laid on a “single small cornerstone, the conception of a certain young woman affronting her destiny.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2017

It’s a mildly affronting experience that — as with some other signifiers of the modern world, a child’s noisy video game included — seems to help push him into nature.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2015

This avoids needlessly affronting the actors who were considered but passed over, or admitting that some actors turned down the preferred parts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Morals were slack in those days, and no one would have thought for a moment of affronting Carew by calling him a moral man.

From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham