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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

Founded the same year Osborn’s Patum Peperium appeared, the magazine took news of the paste’s demise as an almost personal affront.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

The modish bonnet with curling white feathers seemed to her uncle a crowning affront.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Travelers’ affronts in Europe’s tourist zones are sometimes glaringly apparent: pounding music from late-night parties, or puddles of vomit on doorsteps in quiet residential streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024

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

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024

Toomey, of course, was detailing these affronts in the cool comfort of the Senate.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2022

Even Fahrije’s more seemingly innocuous efforts to support her family — selling her husband’s old table saw, for one — are treated like scandalous affronts to him, their life and their world.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

His conciliatory mood was fully accounted for: the new government counsellor stood upon a pedestal far removed from any slights and affronts that had been experienced by the former assessor.

From Vineta The Phantom City by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

"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

And all indications are that he is prepared to inflict considerable economic and environmental damage to assuage his affronted pride.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024

He said it all affronted, as if Rishi had purposely conjured up the fog to ruin his visit.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

In every period of history, affronting the great averages of intellectual development, appear certain minds classified at once as being either before or behind their age.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various