affront
Example Sentences
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His happiness is an affront to their own chronic displeasure.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
"The detention of the flotilla activists in international waters had already represented a serious affront to international law," he wrote on X on Tuesday.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
Moody had made his name as an anticorruption crusader during his tenure as the state’s attorney general: Borger’s cartoonish governmental lawlessness struck him as both a political liability and a moral affront.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
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
Forms of race discrimination that were open and notorious for centuries were transformed in the 1960s and 1970s into something un-American—an affront to our newly conceived ethic of colorblindness.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing affront
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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