be affronted
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What kind of person claims to love movies, only to be affronted when one they haven’t seen or heard of is brought to their attention?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
I’m sure that if you asked these judges if they were certain they were making equally good decisions each time, they’d be affronted.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2014
It strikes me as interesting that regular court-watchers tend to be affronted by suggestions that it’s time for Ginsburg to go, just as political scientists are astonished that it isn’t.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2014
This House will be affronted if any suggestion is made that it should change its venue.
From Time Magazine Archive
He represented the indignity of the action, that so great a princess, mother to the king of France and to the queens of Spain and England, should be affronted by the multitude.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
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