affront

“It’s of course an affront to the victims of the Holocaust to to call Germany to abandon its culture of memory, but it’s also an imminent danger to German democracy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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

His happiness is an affront to their own chronic displeasure.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

The same could not be said of the others, who were stiff with affront.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

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

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

"If I complained," he said, "that my sister and your mother was being exposed to ill-treatment and affronts, this was no reason why you should suspend your visits."

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

"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

It’s as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn’t—which, of course, is pretty often—she is surprised and affronted.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

He in turn has the affronting frankness to tell her that he married her for her amusement value.

From Time Magazine Archive

Selfishness and tyranny no longer wear the mask; they walk haughtily abroad, affronting with their hard-hearted boasts and brazen resolves the patience of the sweet heavens.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller