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The Taliban’s unambiguous and brutal oppression of women was an affront to this emphasis.

His dealer is a wanna-be slickster who shows up at Rob’s door in a yellow Camaro, his Gucci buckle glinting obviously in the sunlight, an affront to all that is decent and good.

From Time

“Apple’s recent announcement continues its affront on publishers and the free Internet, under the guise of consumer privacy,” said Aaron McKee, chief technology officer at mobile ad tech vendor Blis.

From Digiday

The attention economy has lavishly rewarded the Sussexes for talking publicly at great length and in granular detail about their resentment, anger and irritation with the royal family for the many sleights, insults and affronts delivered to them.

To them, the statues were erected to intimidate and threaten, and their continued existence is an affront to freedom and justice.

He seems peeved that she's gotten old, as if it were a personal affront.

Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.

The reality-based community might have a difficult time fending off these two fronts of affront.

This week, Trierweiler, 49, matches that public affront with a statement of her own—in 320 unforgiving pages.

What had been shrugged off in, say, California, was greeted in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio, and Michigan as an affront.

Not suspecting her motive, he represented the hazard of putting so great an affront on the favourite of the Empress.

I opposed this, fearing, of course, that the French and even the Gentiles might interpret this as an affront to our faith.

The vote which required the King to discard them merely because they were what he himself was seemed to him a personal affront.

He was even ready to swallow such an affront as that, thinking it might be offered him under a misconception of his meaning.

That the very novelty of the venture will pass as an affront to some portion of his readers there is only reason to anticipate.

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On this page you'll find 138 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to affront, such as: indignity, provocation, slight, abuse, brickbat, and injury.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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