affront

“It is the facts of this case that are an affront for the court and should be an affront to the public.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

For them, the dance floor was not an affront.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Meloni's government colleagues and MPs called the remarks offensive, damaging to Italy's dignity and deserving of an apology, while opposition members condemned the comments as an unacceptable affront to the country as a whole.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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

This was one affront he would not forget.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2022

When Lincoln shaped and welcomed to himself this preference, he was handling nothing less than the affronts of human arrogance, the greed of human avarice, the cruelty of human slavery, and a confederate's disloyalty.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

"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

He took his seat, moving with an odd combination of graceful courtliness and stiff, 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

In its assault on the emotions, The Hasty Heart succeeds by never affronting the intelligence, never letting its sentiment spill over.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon after affronting Wright in such a manner, the mother complained that her breast "grew dangerouslie sore" and her husband and child both fell sick within a few weeks.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor