How to Use affront in a Sentence

affront

1 of 2 verb

• Snowden says he was affronted by the rank hypocrisy of it all.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Would some people be affronted by the use of the Harvard wall as a display area for the bodies of the executed?
  — Margaret Atwood, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
• Once inside the cave, though, Aladdin can't resist grabbing a jade necklace for Jasmine, affronting the cave, which collapses and traps him and the lamp inside.
  — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Many Mexicans were affronted by the timing, and Pena Nieto faced a firestorm of criticism at home.
  — Julie Pace, Orange County Register, 26 Jan. 2017
• The Sixers’ most obvious failing came on offense in the face of the Heat’s personal-space-affronting defensive pressure.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Which is obviously why so many people are affronted by it.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 July 2018
• While personally affronted that Kitt would so publicly criticize him in the White House, Johnson knew why people protested.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2018
• But Johnson also affronted the public by consorting with and marrying white women.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2018
• So the reader who is affronted by my views on police brutality or any other topic has every right to call me names, but no reasonable expectation of any response beyond a tap of the delete button.
  — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Aug. 2017
• Any needless death is a terrible thing, but generating an immense controversy over a phenomenon that, though despicable, is relatively rare, and doing so by affronting the entire country, never made any sense.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
• Snowden says he was affronted by the rank hypocrisy of it all.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Would some people be affronted by the use of the Harvard wall as a display area for the bodies of the executed?
  — Margaret Atwood, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
• Once inside the cave, though, Aladdin can't resist grabbing a jade necklace for Jasmine, affronting the cave, which collapses and traps him and the lamp inside.
  — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Many Mexicans were affronted by the timing, and Pena Nieto faced a firestorm of criticism at home.
  — Julie Pace, Orange County Register, 26 Jan. 2017
• The Sixers’ most obvious failing came on offense in the face of the Heat’s personal-space-affronting defensive pressure.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Which is obviously why so many people are affronted by it.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 July 2018
• While personally affronted that Kitt would so publicly criticize him in the White House, Johnson knew why people protested.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2018
• But Johnson also affronted the public by consorting with and marrying white women.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2018
• So the reader who is affronted by my views on police brutality or any other topic has every right to call me names, but no reasonable expectation of any response beyond a tap of the delete button.
  — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Aug. 2017
• Any needless death is a terrible thing, but generating an immense controversy over a phenomenon that, though despicable, is relatively rare, and doing so by affronting the entire country, never made any sense.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017

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affront

2 of 2 noun

• He regarded her rude behavior as a personal affront.
• The voices in the bar of more recent times had been an affront to him.
  — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Well, that is an affront to all that’s good and decent.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2022
• And treating a fashion faux pas as a racial affront isn’t a good look for the rest of us.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2022
• Many considered the new gear an affront to the purity of the game.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2021
• The Global Times, tweeted that the move was an affront to Beijing and even lays the groundwork for war in Asia.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 May 2022
• In an affront to the fans, the team increased ticket prices in the Coliseum.
  — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• The move to silver is not seen as an affront to the Black Lives Matter effort by Mercedes.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2021
• The governor, a Democrat, called them an affront to free speech.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 13 June 2023
• Schultz seemed to view the union campaign as a personal affront.
  — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2022
• Failure then feels like a personal affront and gives the fans license to boo.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2022
• Such moves are an affront to women and make the church look not just prudish but also extreme.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
• To tear Mike Tyson off his heroic pedestal was, for many, a personal affront.
  — Max Gao, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• The letter said the plan was an affront to the rights of communities worst impacted by the crisis.
  — Jessie Yeung, Caitlin Hu and Ella Nilsen, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
• Demanding a handover of cellphones, too, could prove to be an affront to the Supreme Court’s workforce.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• The Hamas Covenant is an affront to religious freedom and human rights.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• Lying awake at night, Sohel had been fearing this—an affront that couldn’t be borne.
  — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• Given the choice of riding a horse or a mule on an elk hunt, for example, some folks will take affront at the prospect of sitting atop a mule.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• The idea seems a particular affront to those Portlanders who came to the U.S. and went through the legal process to earn citizenship and the right to vote.
  — Jacob Posik, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
• Some rap purists view post-Drake multi-hyphenate artists like Harlow as an affront to the art form.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• So much of the play is about the way American men take queerness to be an affront to their own security.
  — Michael Appler, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022
• But suing them, Jaffer argued, was an affront to the First Amendment.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• Part of the reason why was because of the affront to what Robinson represented.
  — Jackie Robinson, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2024
• It could be seen as an affront to those countries whose applications have stalled for decades.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2022
• No matter the intent, Obama's gesture was taken by the British press as an affront.
  — Kate Bennett, CNN, 10 June 2021
• Bryan disagreed that giving offenders the right to vote is an affront to victims.
  — Stefanie Dazio, ajc, 9 Feb. 2023
• This is about more than money: Hollywood sees the shift as an affront to its identity.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Removing these monuments is not an affront to the past.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 7 Oct. 2021
• Losing your work-life balance and disrupting the flow of the last two years is an affront to loyal employees.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• Some of her colleagues appeared to see that as an affront, after Gohlstin had already advised against it.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022

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