Affront can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
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| affront - treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" | ||
Noun |
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| affront - a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" |
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| 1. | noun | Those who threatened the religious order were severely punished. The reason for this is, of course, obvious. The religious authorities gave the monarch divine right, and an affront to the religious establishment was a threat to the monarch's power. | |
| 2. | noun | “If a lady,” he said, “asked him any question upon the subject, he would neither answer her nor speak to her again while he lived; if a gentleman, he would consider it as a mortal affront, and demand satisfaction as having received such.”. | |
| 3. | noun | Yanni took that as a personal affront. | |
| 4. | noun | Ferhat Mehenni insulted the Algerian flag and this was an affront to all Algerian citizens. |
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| Those who threatened the religious order were severely punished. The reason for this is, of course, obvious. The religious authorities gave the monarch divine right, and an affront to the religious establishment was a threat to the monarch's power. | |
| “If a lady,” he said, “asked him any question upon the subject, he would neither answer her nor speak to her again while he lived; if a gentleman, he would consider it as a mortal affront, and demand satisfaction as having received such.”. | |
| Yanni took that as a personal affront. | |
| Ferhat Mehenni insulted the Algerian flag and this was an affront to all Algerian citizens. | |