Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
affront .
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Examples
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Such as are openly abusive: The scorner, who gives ill-language to every body, takes a pleasure in affronting people and reflecting upon them, is an abomination to men; none that have any sense of honour and virtue will care to keep company with him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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He is sent to such as are impudent and hard-hearted, who will receive no impressions nor be wrought upon either by fair means or foul, who will take a pride in affronting God's messenger and confronting the message.
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He gave in, because it was “impossible to get off without affronting them.”
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We experience the driver who unthinkingly cuts us off on the road as committing an aggressive act, the people in the security line at the airport who are moving too slowly as personally affronting us.
Michael Bader, D.M.H.: No, Virginia -- AT&T Just Seems Like the Great Satan
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A president affronting the leadership of the church, and blithely threatening its great institutions?
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He gave in, because it was “impossible to get off without affronting them.”
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We experience the driver who unthinkingly cuts us off on the road as committing an aggressive act, the people in the security line at the airport who are moving too slowly as personally affronting us.
Michael Bader, D.M.H.: No, Virginia -- AT&T Just Seems Like the Great Satan
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He has avoided affronting unionist sensibility with tribal grievance against the English and there is no sign that he is motivated by such animus.
SNP: Westminster needs to take Alex Salmond seriously | Observer editorial
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He gave in, because it was “impossible to get off without affronting them.”
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And I can't promise that I'll never write another confronting, affronting, difficult character because I absolutely will.
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