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affront

[uh-fruhnt] / əˈfrʌnt /




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Soccer, Luna believes, represents an affront to the individualistic mindset that plagues today’s world because, by nature, it must happen in community.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

His happiness is an affront to their own chronic displeasure.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

State governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri shared photos of himself arriving at the scene, describing the attack as an "affront to our humanity".

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

Moody had made his name as an anticorruption crusader during his tenure as the state’s attorney general: Borger’s cartoonish governmental lawlessness struck him as both a political liability and a moral affront.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

I demand to know your intentions regarding this unspeakable affront to the dignity of His Majesty’s troops.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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