affront
侮辱,冒犯,辱骂,冒犯行为
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Definitions
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- : a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult: an affront to the king.
- : an offense to one's dignity or self-respect.
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- : to offend by an open manifestation of disrespect or insolence: His speech affronted all of us.
- : to make ashamed or confused; embarrass.
- : Archaic. to front; face; look on.
- : Obsolete. to meet or encounter face to face; confront.
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Examples
The Taliban’s unambiguous and brutal oppression of women was an affront to this emphasis.
His dealer is a wanna-be slickster who shows up at Rob’s door in a yellow Camaro, his Gucci buckle glinting obviously in the sunlight, an affront to all that is decent and good.
“Apple’s recent announcement continues its affront on publishers and the free Internet, under the guise of consumer privacy,” said Aaron McKee, chief technology officer at mobile ad tech vendor Blis.
The attention economy has lavishly rewarded the Sussexes for talking publicly at great length and in granular detail about their resentment, anger and irritation with the royal family for the many sleights, insults and affronts delivered to them.
To them, the statues were erected to intimidate and threaten, and their continued existence is an affront to freedom and justice.
He seems peeved that she's gotten old, as if it were a personal affront.
Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.
The reality-based community might have a difficult time fending off these two fronts of affront.
This week, Trierweiler, 49, matches that public affront with a statement of her own—in 320 unforgiving pages.
What had been shrugged off in, say, California, was greeted in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio, and Michigan as an affront.
Not suspecting her motive, he represented the hazard of putting so great an on the favourite of the Empress.