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

Founded the same year Osborn’s Patum Peperium appeared, the magazine took news of the paste’s demise as an almost personal affront.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

"Hot sauce is on the table of every cook shop and every restaurant. It's almost an affront if it's not there," he says.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

His happiness is an affront to their own chronic displeasure.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

Suzanne’s choices sometimes seemed like an affront to my way of doing things, a vote in favor of easing up and striving less.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024

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

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

Because many of us are so isolated and life seems stuck in slow motion, seemingly mild slights can land as massive affronts.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2020

But whether affronts are consciously given or not, they do not count where allegiance to a cause is concerned.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake

"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

“No, sir. Only . ..” The colonel lifted his eyes as though affronted and studied the chaplain with aloof distrust.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

They were affronting but memorable, and hard to pigeonhole.

From Time Magazine Archive

The government broke their spirit by affronting them: they were compelled to present arms to the king's body guard, whom they detested.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon