affrontive
/uh-fruhn-tiv/US // əˈfrʌn tɪv //
亲和力强,侮辱性的,亲和力强的,侮辱性
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Archaic.
- : insulting; offensive.
Examples
Pretending to honor God by direct disobedience is peculiarly affrontive.
Their behaviour to him, when they could not help seeing him, was very cold and disobliging; but as yet not directly affrontive.
As to the Scotch, their barbarisms that are to be found even in print, are affrontive to the descendants of Englishmen.
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