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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

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

"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

The two are said to have been turned into lions because of some affront offered either to Zeus or to Aphrodite.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

Each of these tiny slights and affronts can be chalked up to the usual cluelessness and fractiousness of any given oral argument.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2021

Whoever has not the self-denial to allay this suspicion by enduring all sorts of humiliations and affronts must not try to aid the Ammergau villagers.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

"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

After a few moments, the dogs slunk off to the foot of the tent, affronted.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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

The possibilities for gaining some fresh perspectives on popular culture, past and present, seem worth the risk of affronting our conventional biographical expectations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Against injustice on the part of a daimyo, his samurai had the actual right of appealing to the Shogunate at the risk of suffering a heavy penalty for his affronting his lord by so doing.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara