affront vs effrontery
Definitions
verb
- treat, mention, or speak to rudely
noun
- a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
Examples
This answer, you'll see by the enclosed news paper, was unanimously voted to be not satisfactory to the Town, and the next day, on Mr. Hutchinson's sending into the Town Meeting an answer of the same purport, both his and ours were voted to be daringly affrontive to the
The King was particularly affronted by the medicinal powers claimed for the plant.
His ideas are obviously foolish, easily disproved, an affront to any reasoning person.
Definitions
noun
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
Examples
Obviously, I'm not Catholic, but I think it takes a lot of effrontery for the media to try to dictate the doctrine for Catholics.
The man walked off in dudgeon, and Mr. Westwyn, losing his anger in his astonishment at this effrontery, said, 'And pray, Mr. Lynmere, what do you pretend to know of Stilton cheese? do they make it at Leipsic? did you ever so much as taste it in your life?'
We're going to laugh at your presumption and ego and effrontery and audacity.
