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
An aggressive and often affronting movie, Sweetback is also irreverent, scatological and crude.
From Time Magazine Archive
Selfishness and tyranny no longer wear the mask; they walk haughtily abroad, affronting with their hard-hearted boasts and brazen resolves the patience of the sweet heavens.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
