Sample Sentences foraffront (auto-selected)
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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At least they too were covered in grease smudges, completing the affront.† (source)
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The modish bonnet with curling white feathers seemed to her uncle a crowning affront.† (source)
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That's when Christian realized that Adam's crazy driving wasn't a personal affront.† (source)
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I'm prepared, therefore, to forgive your affront to me.† (source)
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This latest affront was too much for the students to bear.† (source)
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He looks up at me, affronted, almost startled.† (source)
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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)
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For the opposite reason, Prince John hated and contemned the few Saxon families of consequence which subsisted in England, and omitted no opportunity of mortifying and affronting them; being conscious that his person and pretensions were disliked by them, as well as by the greater part of the English commons, who feared farther innovation upon their rights and liberties, from a sovereign of John's licentious and tyrannical disposition.† (source)
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POLLY CHAPMAN (standing, full of affront): No. No.† (source)
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"I'm sweet," she said, affronted, and holding back his license.† (source)
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Although that was not her intention, it was the correct way to respond to anonymous letters from a class accustomed by the affronts of history to bow before faits accomplis.† (source)
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To speak frankly, many are sexual deviants, either terribly repressed and subject to explosions of frenzied lasciviousness or openly depraved, in either case regularly affronting management with gross outrages of free sex and incest.† (source)
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Fostering the boy elsewhere would be a grievous affront to him.† (source)
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I act affronted, but since I'm half eyeing the Mercator girl and half looking into the garden for Helene, Grandfather isn't convinced.† (source)
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