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Some have apologized for the affront and consoled customers, helping them move through the stages of grief to acceptance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“It is the facts of this case that are an affront for the court and should be an affront to the public.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

For them, the dance floor was not an affront.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Meloni's government colleagues and MPs called the remarks offensive, damaging to Italy's dignity and deserving of an apology, while opposition members condemned the comments as an unacceptable affront to the country as a whole.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

“How dare you affront his lordship?! His worshipful lordship?!”

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

The exploitation of the poor, migrants and women are also described as affronts to human dignity.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024

Californians are unsettled, anxious and, in some cases, livid over homelessness, soaring gas prices, obscene housing costs, crime and all manner of affronts that undermine California’s golden promise — not to mention their day-to-day lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

But others worry that the postponement will have a chilling effect on institutions, making them wary of the very thing museums are meant to do: present art that provokes, stimulates and sometimes even affronts.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2022

That this should make one acutely alert to affronts, even if micro.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022

Behold with what lowliness of heart did he undergo the affronts of a profane world!

From True Christianity by Johann Arndt

"He brings in the female demographic because he is so sexy - but he appeals to men. He's an honest, good, authentic, down-to-earth type of individual. So you don't really get affronted by him."

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

An afterthought if not a redheaded stepchild, though expect affronted fellow media outlets to freak out because of what NBC News once was, not what it is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

But it wasn’t just Catholics who were affronted.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

Catholic bishops Monday, warning that the forceful removal of immigrants affronted the "infinite and transcendent dignity" accorded to all human beings and would "end badly."

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025

He took his seat, moving with an odd combination of graceful courtliness and stiff, affronted dignity.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

He is a writer whose books, like those of Wain himself, "were civilized and responsible, neither condescending to nor affronting the reader, and commanded a small but not fickle public."

From Time Magazine Archive

And, for that Reason, I can't forbear affronting them whenever they fall in my Way.

From The Toy Shop (1735) The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) by Robert Dodsley