affront
Example Sentences
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Event organisers claim Enhanced will push the limits of human performance while critics, especially in the Olympic movement, dismiss it as an affront to the spirit and founding principles of competitive sport.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
His happiness is an affront to their own chronic displeasure.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
“I’m quite frankly troubled by what I see as a brazen disregard,” Commissioner Ray Jackson remarked about Levy during a public hearing, characterizing the situation as “a direct affront to the people of California.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Madrid rejected the demand, calling it an affront.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
“I am surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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