affronting
Example Sentences
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He was a peacock: intent on blinding small people with his brilliance, affronting an older generation he detested and belittling everyone but himself - especially Vivienne.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022
He added that the imposing structure of his 1881 novel was laid on a “single small cornerstone, the conception of a certain young woman affronting her destiny.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2017
It’s a mildly affronting experience that — as with some other signifiers of the modern world, a child’s noisy video game included — seems to help push him into nature.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2015
Without affronting palace privacy, it has done its best to keep the public up-to-date on each new development in the case.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in his eagerness to secure the alliance of Florence, he committed the fatal mistake of affronting the Venetians.
From Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright
