affront
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7.4
- noun
- /əˈfrʌnt/
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afrenta
- This is an affront to the principles on which the United Nations were founded.
- affront to dignity
- personal affront
- ultimate affront
Hate speech laws are an affront to human liberty.
- Hate speech laws are an affront to human liberty.
- Because women in blue collar families suffer the same dignitary affronts as same class men.
- And they should say that when you get on, this is an affront to God.
- On most other days, your needs, your existence, your wants, It's an affront to them.
- Your mistakes are affronts to them, and then the damned insight goes out the window.
- This is an affront to the principles on which the United Nations were founded.
- They were like, it was an affront to walk down the street and see men acting that way.
- How it was transformed from that to an abhorrent affront to human sentiment and a prohibited or prescribed activity.
- They're investigating it because the theft would be an affront to their number one ideology that they are promoting.
- It's not the exercise of these powers, but the existence of these powers which matters and is the affront.
- The other thing the court says with regard to retribution, certain crimes themselves are so grievous that they such an affront to humanity.
Examples
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This was an affront to his dignity.
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Black liberals condemned the movement and its leaders as an affront to national unity.
Academic text (1999) -
The Christmas tree is an affront to everything I believe in.
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I take that as a personal affront.
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Heresy is an affront to the teachings of the Church.
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It's an affront to authority and blatant disrespect for property.
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A Supreme Court completely divorced from democratic accountability is an affront to the system of checks and balances.
Academic text (2006) -
Senior lawyers lament the new litigiousness as an affront to professionalism.
Academic text (1995) -
I consider his comments to be a serious affront to my intelligence.
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Her decision to ignore the dress code was seen as an affront to the formality of the event.
Synonyms
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3.9
Feeling of hurt or anger caused by something insulting
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1.3
A rude remark or action that hurts someone's feelings
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7.2
Rude behavior or speech toward someone in authority
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8.1
Rude behavior or remarks that show a lack of respect
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7.9
Rude behavior that shows no politeness
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8.1
Talking about someone in a way that shows dislike and makes them seem unimportant
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3.2
A rude comment meant to hurt someone or show no respect
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8.1
Words or actions that are rude and hurt other people's feelings
Bad behavior that shows little respect and hurts others
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Etymology
The word affront comes from Old French and Latin parts meaning 'to the face', Latin ad- 'to' and frons 'forehead', the same root as English front. So an affront is like a 'face attack', a deliberate insult that hurts a person's pride.