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Secondly, I thinkmost Democrats are still too loyal to their party to undertake such an affrontive move.

This Revolution Could Be Televised on Fox 2007

And I told you, that after a very cold, yet not a directly affrontive behaviour to him, they all of a sudden* became more violent, and proceeded to personal insults; which brought on at last the unhappy rencounter between my brother and him.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Their behaviour to him, when they could not help seeing him, was very cold and disobliging; but as yet not directly affrontive.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Probably each one will discover things in himself which he had not suspected -- depravity, unfairness, disingenuity, the bare suspicion of which by others, would be resented as affrontive.

Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee

Pretending to honor God by direct disobedience is peculiarly affrontive.

Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee

Governor satisfaction and punishment upon the accuser, and a notary, one Robin, who prepared notarial acts, in an unbecoming affrontive manner.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Various

I suggested to some republican members of the delegation from his State, the giving him, either directly or indirectly, an office, the most lucrative in that State, and then offered to be resigned, if they thought he would not deem it affrontive.

The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia 1900

I have never heard of anything, and I cannot conceive of anything, more absurd and more affrontive of all sober judgment than the cry that we are getting indemnity by the acquisition of New Mexico and California.

Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses Whitelaw Reid 1874

This answer, you'll see by the enclosed news paper, was unanimously voted to be not satisfactory to the Town, and the next day, on Mr. Hutchinson's sending into the Town Meeting an answer of the same purport, both his and ours were voted to be daringly affrontive to the

Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) Various 1856

Discretion, as usual, prevailed, and the meeting voted that the replies were "daringly affrontive" to the town, and then dissolved.

Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) Various 1856