affront

Example Sentences

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Bovino flailed back at every affront instead of focusing on his mission, not realizing his recklessness was eroding public support for his cause and threatening it altogether.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

What Cannon claimed as a personal affront, though, was merely Smith following the law.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

Posting on his Truth Social account, he called the show "an affront to the Greatness of America."

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

He added that it was "an affront to the Greatness of America".

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

Two decades later, in Batson, the Supreme Court reversed course, a nod to the newly minted public consensus that explicit race discrimination is an affront to American values.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander