affront
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“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
"Hot sauce is on the table of every cook shop and every restaurant. It's almost an affront if it's not there," he says.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
His happiness is an affront to their own chronic displeasure.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Madrid rejected the demand, calling it an affront.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
This was of some consolation to Ferula, who took Clara’s pregnancy as a personal affront.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
The exploitation of the poor, migrants and women are also described as affronts to human dignity.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024
The R.J.C. has taken a tougher stance on perceived affronts to the Jewish community before.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
Toomey, of course, was detailing these affronts in the cool comfort of the Senate.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2022
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
Whoever has not the self-denial to allay this suspicion by enduring all sorts of humiliations and affronts must not try to aid the Ammergau villagers.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
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
But a strong chorus of support for punishing Mr. Li made it clear that his words had affronted a far broader cohort than Chinese officialdom.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
He turned and left, the very picture of affronted dignity.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
They were affronting but memorable, and hard to pigeonhole.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it hadna been fear for affronting a good steady customer, you shoudna hae been here.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
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