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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

“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

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

“I’m quite frankly troubled by what I see as a brazen disregard,” Commissioner Ray Jackson remarked about Levy during a public hearing, characterizing the situation as “a direct affront to the people of California.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

“I am surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

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

She has embraced her identity while refusing to let affronts to it distract her.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2022

Then Beaumains remembered him of all the many affronts that Sir Kay had put upon him for all that year past and with that his anger grew very hot within him.

From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Howard Pyle

"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

Catholic bishops Monday, warning that the forceful removal of immigrants affronted the "infinite and transcendent dignity" accorded to all human beings and would "end badly."

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025

“They’re not telling the whole story,” Sovoy said, affronted.

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

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

They had held back from affronting their neighbor’s cousin.

From A Virginia Scout by D. C. Hutchison