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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.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

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)

He gave in, because it was “impossible to get off without affronting them.”

George Washington’s First War

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.

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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.

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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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A president affronting the leadership of the church, and blithely threatening its great institutions?

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Roberts, in his ill-fitting black robe, a sour sag upon his face, with Obama standing beside him, says in a disappointed voice, as if affronting the Constitution,

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How do you react when something really affronting happens?

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Same with Obama and his tactless (tactlesness is defined as saying what everybodyelse is saying and the results are not always admirable) about our nation's policy regarding Osama Bin Laden and Pakistan's sovereignity -- Obama did not intend to end up featured on the front pages of newspapers across Pakistan affronting their sovereignity for no good end.

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