affrontin a sentence
affront as in: an affront to society
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Percy looked affronted. (source)affronted = insulted
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We'll take these fellows to the tavern and affront them with t'other couple, and I reckon we'll find out SOMETHING before we get through. (source)affront = create a confrontational face-to-face exchange
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He'd printed the picture anyway, and Reenie was affronted, as much by us as by Elwood Murray.† (source)affronted = insulted
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Nymeria growled and spun away, affronted.† (source)
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SCORPIUS (affronted): Dad was—but Mum wasn't.† (source)
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Be quick to be affronted.† (source)
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There was something in the hard line of my father's face, in the quiet sigh of supplication he made every morning before he began family prayer, that made me think my curiosity was an obscenity, an affront to all he'd sacrificed to raise me.† (source)
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He looks up at me, affronted, almost startled.† (source)affronted = insulted
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She had a casual way of ignoring affronts, slipping past insults to her whiteness like a seasoned boxer slips punches.† (source)affronts = intentional insults; or the act of intentionally insulting
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They aren't successful and so they aren't affronting the hot Southern pride of their men folks.† (source)affronting = intentionally insulting
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He ran in the middle, climbed in the middle, and he could shoot straight enough so as not to affront his superiors.† (source)
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"I'm sweet," she said, affronted, and holding back his license.† (source)affronted = insulted
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As Hisham was the most junior, the flood of affronts would always end up pouring down on his head.† (source)affronts = intentional insults; or the act of intentionally insulting
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Hayward felt that life was full of ugliness, his soul revolted from the thought of affronting again the cynicism of examiners, and he saw something rather splendid in kicking away the ball which lay at his feet.† (source)affronting = intentionally insulting
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That is, the most reprehensible affront should be resolved by a duel of the fewest paces, to ensure that one of the two men will not leave the field of honor alive.† (source)
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"I see," says Emma, sounding a bit affronted.† (source)affronted = insulted
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