affront

Aaquil Hussain, a liaison officer who manages parking and safety issues at Broomhouse Mosque, said the attacks were an "affront to British values".

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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

His happiness is an affront to their own chronic displeasure.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

Madrid rejected the demand, calling it an affront.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

Now that they were shaheed, packing up and running was an even worse affront, a betrayal, a disavowal of the sacrifice her sons had made.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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 Holyoake, George Jacob

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

And the first thing that falls upon his affronted glance is pizza.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023

Izzy had left it there on her last visit, and the casual carelessness of this gesture affronted Mrs. Richardson.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

But they all--particularly Britain, which has agreed to take 10 to 15 dissidents--want to limit media attention to avoid affronting China.

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