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

This House will be affronted if any suggestion is made that it should change its venue.

From Time Magazine Archive

But not one person out of a thousand, looking upon the picture, but would go away and describe the hat, and be affronted if you should tell them there is no hat in the picture.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Hubbard, Elbert