Synonym: offense, provocation. Similar words: effrontery, front, seafront, confront, frontier, forefront, in front of, in the front. Meaning: [ə'frʌnt] n. a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect. v. treat, mention, or speak to rudely.
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(31) Rather did he wallow in a mood of self-pity, taking his son's desertion as a personal affront.
(32) She felt that his behaviour was an affront to her dignity as a human being.
(33) An Aprista-sympathizing faculty member of the University Council challenged the Rector to a duel after allegedly suffering a personal affront.
(34) When self-regard is so shatteringly undermined, the symbols of a former shaky greatness become almost an affront.
(35) Leprosy was special in that it was perceived as an affront to the nation.
(36) But the Lower East Side was merely squalid-an intolerable affront to respectable folk.
(37) Major Tzann could not help regarding it as something of a personal affront,[www.Sentencedict.com] an act of mute insubordination.
(38) It seems to consist of an affront to the dignity of the House or a Member of it.
(39) Surely tearing up the Pope's picture was meant as a symbolic gesture, not a personal affront.
(40) They did not want to affront this mad woman.
(41) Her mind was now very susceptible to affront .
(42) She did not dare affront him.
(43) It was an affront to common decency.
(44) She has taken my enquiry as a personal affront.
(45) Back then woods had been communal, NO TRESPASSING signs an affront, but after his great-aunt's death, neighbors soon found places other than the gorge to hunt and fish, gather blackberries and galax.
(46) Mr K ? hler seemed to be offering an economic justification, an affront to their instinctive pacifism.
(47) Even more than other nonkosher foods, pork is seen by many Israelis as an affront to Jewish nationalism.
(48) When he was ploughed for his fina he looked upon it as a personnal affront.
(49) She views me, a white male, as a personal affront.
(50) Every quarrel left its mark and made Bertha more susceptible to affront.
(51) After the entry of WTO, the domestic assets appraisal trade will affront more fierce international competitions and severe challenges.
(52) Some see such images as a blasphemous affront to faith and an attack on believers.
(53) The British practice impressment had gone on for hundreds of years, and the independence-minded Americans were no longer willing to tolerate such an affront to their sovereignty.
(54) Ceng Yin of advance childe serious side one character is inadvertent affront land and genuflect ground repents, forgive of invocatory blackland ground.
(55) Her great white hat with its vulgar. showy flowers was an affront.
(56) Reach " barefaced affront other is concoctive perhaps the fact is calumniatory other " wait for case.
(57) The totalitarian world even finds symbols of love and worship an affront.
(58) His speech was an affront to all the members of the community.
(59) In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
(60) How the state-owned forest farm keep the economy sustainable and healthily development, affront the aboil market competition, along with innovation embed ceaselessly.
More similar words: effrontery, front, seafront, confront, frontier, forefront, in front of, in the front, storefront, the front line, confrontation, confrontational, gerontology, on the contrary, suffrage, suffragist, diffraction, chaff, gaffe, staff, afford, frown, from, affect, affair, affirm, baffle, frock, froth, traffic.