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

Former UK prime minister David Cameron joined the government in calling for Lai's release, saying the activist's imprisonment was "an affront to freedom of speech".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

Forms of race discrimination that were open and notorious for centuries were transformed in the 1960s and 1970s into something un-American—an affront to our newly conceived ethic of colorblindness.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander