- present participle of affront.
affronting
Example Sentences
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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
Without affronting palace privacy, it has done its best to keep the public up-to-date on each new development in the case.
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
