All 5 Uses of
affront
in
Crime and Punishment
- Raskolnikov had unwarily fixed a very long and direct look on him, so that he felt positively affronted.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Mistrustfully and with an affectation of being alarmed and almost affronted, he scanned Raskolnikov's low and narrow "cabin."†
Chpt 2.5
- "Excuse me, sir," said Luzhin, affronted, and speaking with excessive dignity.†
Chpt 2.5
- …not later than to-morrow evening at eight o'clock precisely, and herewith I venture to present my earnest and, I may add, imperative request that Rodion Romanovitch may not be present at our interview—as he offered me a gross and unprecedented affront on the occasion of my visit to him in his illness yesterday, and, moreover, since I desire from you personally an indispensable and circumstantial explanation upon a certain point, in regard to which I wish to learn your own…†
Chpt 3.2
- I do not dispute that he may have contributed to accelerate the course of events by the moral influence, so to say, of the affront; but as to the general conduct and moral characteristics of that personage, I am in agreement with you.†
Chpt 4.2
Definition:
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(affront as in: an affront to society) an intentional insult; or to intentionally insult