Examples of 'affront' in a sentence
Meaning of "affront"
An affront is an action or remark that causes outrage or offense to someone
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- To insult intentionally, especially openly.
- To meet defiantly; to confront.
- To meet or encounter face to face.
- An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
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Extreme poverty is an affront to our common humanity.
Is an affront and an insult to the memory of my brother.
What happened was indeed an affront to civilization itself.
It is an affront to decency and a threat to our stability.
Do not take this affront lying down.
It is an affront to liberty and unworthy of a democratic government.
But that is practically an affront to my very existence.
Thats an affront to a lot of women in her situation.
Recognizing that poverty is an affront to human dignity.
Such laws are an affront to multilateralism in international relations.
Violence against women is an affront to human dignity.
You are an affront to the balance of the universe.
I believe he married you to affront his father.
Blasphemy is an affront to the faithful of any religion.
Someone will pay for this affront.
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This was taken as an affront by many of the locals.
The nobles considered her power an affront.
Because you are an affront to nature herself.
I am off to try to avenge this indelible affront.
This is a direct affront to collective bargaining rights.
The persistence of extreme poverty is an affront to humanity.
The monarchy is an affront to every democratic principle.
Persons condemned for commission of affront to community.
Do not affront me afore these folk.
Having these two strip is an affront to humanity.
It is an affront to human dignity and a modern form of slavery.
I think he might find it an affront to his vanity.
He could consider these kinds of actions to be an affront.
I think this is an affront to their own dignity.
I will try to avenge this indelible affront.
We will not let this affront go unanswered.
Very few things are actually a personal affront.
We will cleanse this affront with blood.
This he clearly considers some kind of affront.
This issue constitutes an affront to all that we are.
The very fact that it exists is an affront.
Violence of any sort is an affront to human dignity.
We do not intend to be a party to any such affront.
To not date a sister is an affront to that notion.
They are an affront to the international conscience.
At a delicate time in my personal development is an affront to my sense.
What you propose is an affront to all your predecessors.
The deity took this refusal as an affront.
Putting us in these is an affront to my warrior spirit.
An affront to the whole history of mankind.
It is based on destruction and is an affront to human dignity.
It is an affront to and an assault upon both.
Meat raised like that is an affront to nature.
The situation is an affront to the entire international community.
To be wealthy and demand more is an affront to a god.
