be affronted

Example Sentences

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What kind of person claims to love movies, only to be affronted when one they haven’t seen or heard of is brought to their attention?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2022

I’m sure that if you asked these judges if they were certain they were making equally good decisions each time, they’d be affronted.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2014

It strikes me as interesting that regular court-watchers tend to be affronted by suggestions that it’s time for Ginsburg to go, just as political scientists are astonished that it isn’t.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2014

Having already beaten Oklahoma, 27-14, the Hurricanes were poised to be affronted by only half a title should the Sooners defeat Penn State.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shall those who believe "culture is colorless" be affronted; and shall their representatives be exiled by the beneficiaries?

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace