affront

Example Sentences

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What Cannon claimed as a personal affront, though, was merely Smith following the law.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

It was famously experienced by the audience as an affront.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Posting on his Truth Social account, he called the show "an affront to the Greatness of America."

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

“Family Nest,” “The Outsider” and “The Prefab People” focused on couples and individuals trapped by commonplace struggles and social constraints, a thematic affront to late-communist Hungary.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

The two are said to have been turned into lions because of some affront offered either to Zeus or to Aphrodite.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton