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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

For them, Dannon’s move is one last affront.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Opposition has also coalesced around religious appeals from a theologically diverse group of residents, leaders and politicians who see data center development as an affront to their most sacred values.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

It was precisely the sort of home Carl would build, he thought—blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Travelers’ affronts in Europe’s tourist zones are sometimes glaringly apparent: pounding music from late-night parties, or puddles of vomit on doorsteps in quiet residential streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024

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

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024

Toomey, of course, was detailing these affronts in the cool comfort of the Senate.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2022

Even Fahrije’s more seemingly innocuous efforts to support her family — selling her husband’s old table saw, for one — are treated like scandalous affronts to him, their life and their world.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions?

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

"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

Bagman looked almost affronted, but couldn’t say much more as Fred and George turned up at that point.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

He in turn has the affronting frankness to tell her that he married her for her amusement value.

From Time Magazine Archive

This kind of talk did not help the family peace, and the father spoke of disowning the son, if he did not cease affronting the Best Society.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard