How To Use Affront In A Sentence
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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
Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
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The King was particularly affronted by the medicinal powers claimed for the plant.
THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
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His ideas are obviously foolish, easily disproved, an affront to any reasoning person.
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We are confused, bemused and affronted.
Times, Sunday Times
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How can you stomach their affronts?
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A president affronting the leadership of the church, and blithely threatening its great institutions?
A Battle the President Can't Win
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She felt that his behaviour was an affront to her dignity as a human being.
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Provocatively mingy tax cuts seem to have caused black affront on a scale to surprise even the Nats.
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His speech was an affront to all decent members of the community.
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The conduct that has come to light is an insult to the people, and an affront to the most basic standards of morality and decency.
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Back when I was perfectionist youngster I would have taken each missed shot as a personal affront.
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I was slightly affronted that he seemed to know more about it than I did.
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Or make her feel affronted?
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Those whom you love may see your desire to escape as an affront, a rejection.
Times, Sunday Times
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Buying an airline seemed foolhardy and unnecessarily ostentatious: it affronted his sense of proportion.
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Those who militantly defend the conservative orthodoxy in Australia see all change as an affront to the past, especially their view of the past.
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The Viking helms and the chapel-de-fer are affronty by default; all other helms face dexter by default.
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Reggie reacted with the same affronted horror Midge had felt.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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It was very unhelpful in another way in that the vast majority of officers saw it as a personal affront.
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These days I rarely phone a friend and often feel vaguely affronted if they ring me.
Times, Sunday Times
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How did two years change an historic healthcare reform for the good of all Americans into an affront to personal liberty?
Times, Sunday Times
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Many in the country, affronted by the tawdry detail, will feel football has moved backwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Telling the public that she left Oddfellows to rescue VPC was a heinous affront to the VPC staff, who loyally slave to keep things running smoothly in Ericka’s continued absence.
Ericka Burke leaves Oddfellows
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Mrs. Mirvan then advanced to him, and said in French, that she was sure the Captain had not any intention to affront him, and begged he would desist from a dispute which could only be productive of mutual misunderstanding, as neither of them knew the language of the other.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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On a wreath, the bust of a man couped and affronte, proper, ducally crowned, or.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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Her ‘lessons’ are an in-your-face affront, and the role you've been playing is that of the good schnook.
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A political programme that erodes human dignity is an affront to all of us, and deserves condemnation from every pulpit in the land.
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‘It's actually a caramel mocha, to be precise,’ she corrected, looking rather affronted by my attitude.
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And what affronts the system most of all is the idea that the state could help to support women's independence.
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Martin looked at me, pretending to be highly affronted, but the other cashier chose this moment to intervene.
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So Ng Yen Yen, please convey to Todt that I am 'affronted' and 'distressed' that somehow money is involved when he supposedly took the position voluntarily.
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« Signe frappant de la délicatesse du contexte politique que le parti affronte, son chef Jack Layton a refusé de répondre aux questions une fois terminée sa courte déclaration en ce sens.
Warren Kinsella
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In youth, affronts to their dignity or pride are often met with disproportionate anger, and sometimes with revenge.
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The suggestion that people are arbitrarily reliving the past and exploiting it under the pretense of creating art strikes her as an affront.
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I'd hate to have to horsewhip anyone at your ball, and spoil the appetites of your guests, but an affront to a host is no way to begin a party.
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It was an affront to the English language and an offence against all educated people.
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As we view the use of ‘sheepskin aprons’ in the Initiated Orders of Masonry, we can surmise that the use of this element would be seen as an affront to more ‘precise’ sects contained within the vast network of Mystery Schools.
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It is the fence-riders who struggle to seem fair-minded and accepting who present the most dangerous affront because they themselves may not even realize just how much their struggle with racist thinking affects everything that they say and do.
Afternoon Buzz: Is Carter right about racism?
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Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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She considered it an intolerable affront to her dignity.
Times, Sunday Times
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That the power to deny anything from occupying city land rests in the hands of city hall is an affront to the real owners of that land - the people who live in the city.
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Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations.
On The Art of Reading
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He that burns incense to God, and so puts contempt upon the incense of Christ's intercession, is as if he blessed an idol; it was as great an affront to God as if they had paid their devotions to a false god.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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In those buried and bygone days, it was an affront and an offense to join with separatists to defeat a corrupt government.
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Shut in with his cronies, he sees the world as his enemy and opposition to his will as personal affront.
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He used to be very kind of affronted that -- that Edward would not call him, you know, "Your Imperial Highness" because, you know, the kaiser said, "Look, I'm an emperor.
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
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'a lion sejant affronte gules crowned or, '&c. The adoption of the thistle as the national Scottish emblem is wrapt in obscurity, although an early poet attributes it to a suggestion of Venus. line 153.
Marmion
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In a ducal coronet, or, a Saracen's head affrontee, proper, wreathed about the temples, ar. and sable.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.
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Could you know that your letter with its catalogue of advantages and arrangements must offend me as much as if, belies (let us hope) you and the woman of your love, I would pardon the affront of it upon us all, and ascribe the unseemly want of warmth to reserve or to the sadness which grips the heart when joy is too palpitant.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Women are invited to feel particularly affronted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many are even infuriated and feel affronted by these results.
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An Aprista-sympathizing faculty member of the University Council challenged the Rector to a duel after allegedly suffering a personal affront.
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The Amir is strongly motivated by the Pashtoon concept of "izzat" (self-respect) and tends to look upon any suggestion of concessions to international opinion as an affront to his "izzat".
IntelliBriefs
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Arms of the Office are -- _Arg., a lion sejant erect and affronté gu., holding in his dexter paw a thistle slipped vert, and in the sinister an escutcheon of the second; on a chief az., a saltire of the first_: No. 266.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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Elle affronte aujourd'hui l'Argentine, dans un match plein de promesses.
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Don't you think it'll have something to do with your act, I venture, receiving an affronted look for my temerity.
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Joel looked slightly affronted by that question but smiled.
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(Part of the affront of Phoenix's prank is that behind his vagrant's disguise, he dares to live a private life.)
Joaquin Phoenix offers us a reality check on celebrity
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He took his son's desertion as a personal affront.
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He manages an earnest tone to his voice with just a touch of querulousness that suggests he'd be affronted that anyone could even think that he might not be telling the truth.
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She thought maybe the shocked silence that followed affronted Lily more than any response would have.
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Such as are openly abusive: The scorner, who gives ill-language to every body, takes a pleasure in affronting people and reflecting upon them, is an abomination to men; none that have any sense of honour and virtue will care to keep company with him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Surely tearing up the Pope's picture was meant as a symbolic gesture, not a personal affront.
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It seems to consist of an affront to the dignity of the House or a Member of it.
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It is an affront to anyone with any sense of human dignity and common decency, regardless of where they stand on the issue.
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Leprosy was special in that it was perceived as an affront to the nation.
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Fat girls in leggings for example is a personal affront for myself and I can't say I'm too enamoured by people who talk at the top of their lungs almost all the time (yes Australians, I'm talking to you!).
Stripping Lib Dems
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Resentment of an affront is sin; it is anomia, disconformity to the law of love.
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The challenge now, is to give the current crop of recruits more time to build a cohesive affront.
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At the time she said the ad was not intended to cause offence and described the ban as ‘absurd and an affront to the British sense of humour’.
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The airwaves may be awash with treacly DJs, nerve-shredding jingles and the kind of yammering advertisements that deserve their very own circle in Hell, but no one thinks radio is an affront to Western civilisation as a result.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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And I told you, that after a very cold, yet not a directly affrontive behaviour to him, they all of a sudden* became more violent, and proceeded to personal insults; which brought on at last the unhappy rencounter between my brother and him.
Clarissa Harlowe
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The U.S. hid the operation from Pakistan for fear that the raid plans would leak to militants, but the unilateral action brought protests from Pakistani leaders over what they called an affront to their sovereignty.
AP: Bin Laden documents sharpen U.S. aim
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In fact, it was refreshingly, if a bit affrontingly, different.
Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
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Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the Honour of Parliament depraved, the Writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations.
Religio Medici
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“And why not, huzzy?” demanded my cousin, who was less incensed at the affront than I expected.
Uncle Silas
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Major Tzann could not help regarding it as something of a personal affront, an act of mute insubordination.
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At first sight, the grotty cotton balls seem like an affront, but a funny one that quickly gives way to an appreciation of the literal saturation of color they accomplish, and the way they morph at a distance into flowers.
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Perhaps at the absolute extreme some see dogs as an affront to God because they live in the moment, unconscious of tomorrow let alone eternity, and have no desire to govern their appetites.
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An affronted Legislature has changed the law so that Texas governments can no longer sue those seeking records.
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You will regard it as inimical to the British way, as incompatible with liberty, as an affront to your maturity and autonomy.
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He added: 'It seems an affront to justice.
The Sun
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The solemnity and dignity of the occasion were marred by this imperial affront to the former colonies.
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Certes, we can say none otherwise than that the king's magnificence was a virtue, whilst that of the churchman was a miracle, inasmuch as the clergy are all exceeding niggardly, nay, far more so than women, and sworn enemies of all manner of liberality; and albeit all men naturally hunger after vengeance for affronts received, we see churchmen, for all they preach patience and especially commend the remission of offences, pursue it more eagerly than other folk.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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In those buried and bygone days, it was an affront and an offense to join with separatists to defeat a corrupt government.
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The helm may be displayed either affronty or in profile, whichever better displays the crest.
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Second, would it be an affront to the public conscience to allow the plaintiff to recover.
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The primary was blazoned as a ‘dragon affronty, wings displayed, lacking forelegs’.
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These circumstances combined to attach to the term villain ideas of crime and guilt, in so forcible a manner that the application of the epithet even to those to whom it legally belonged became an affront, and was abstained from whenever no affront was intended.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
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That fine sensitivity also helps to interpret a minor insult or affront as a threat or rejection.
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That is an affront to people in temporary accommodation and in housing stress.
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Governor satisfaction and punishment upon the accuser, and a notary, one Robin, who prepared notarial acts, in an unbecoming affrontive manner.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
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Philip was not affronted; he was too amazed to notice a mere lack of courtesy.
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He pointed out that the images we previously had of the Bermuda flag show the red lion affronté holding the shield, with what looks like a small pool of water below the shield.
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His casualness irritated Adriana; it had the savor of a deliberate affront.
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His speech was an affront to many in the local community.
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In a further affront to American freedoms, a traditional scarf was draped over her shoulders.
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But I would not have you think me a fool, for all I talk so easy about the matter; I know very well what I might have got for the mill some years ago, when first it stopped, if I would have let it to the man that proposed for it; but though he was as substantial a tenant as you could see, yet he affronted me once, at the last election, by calling a freeholder of mine over the coals; and so I was proud of an opportunity to show him I did not forget.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02
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“Hout no! hout no!” said Mrs. Butler, in a tone of entreaty; “ye maunna affront the Captain.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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He felt personally affronted when she didn't change her mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, you can buy these knock outs without any affronted by hurdles. \\n \\nThey contain leftover attend to send you the offset dosage and bid promotional discounts for their send while simultaneously making positive that your clandestineness is respected at all on the dots.
Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins
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His speech was an affront to many in the local community.
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Newcastle ou encore Besiktas est très confiant pour l'Angleterre, qui affronte l'Allemagne en huitième de finale de Coupe du Monde ce dimanche.
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But also costly figuratively, costly psychologically, because the new social lassitude associated with liberalism affronted cherished values.
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Limits upon personal freedom and choice are an affront to all that is sacred to the American Religion.
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But it is a system that many constitutionalists and democrats see as a standing affront.
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Limits upon personal freedom and choice are an affront to all that is sacred.
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The fence itself took less than three minutes to come down as people attacked what was widely perceived to be an affront to freedom of assembly and speech.
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Nevertheless, she appears affronted by the criticism.
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He regarded the comments as an affront to his dignity.
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‘Homelessness in all its forms is an affront to social justice,’ he said.
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This was a blatant insult to Russia and an affront to the whole free world.
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It was very unhelpful in another way in that the vast majority of officers saw it as a personal affront.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have never heard of anything, and I cannot conceive of anything, more absurd and more affrontive of all sober judgment than the cry that we are getting indemnity by the acquisition of New Mexico and California.
Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses
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We have returned submissions of animals rampant affronty for exactly this reason; barring evidence of sejant erect affronty being depicted in this manner, we must return this for a redraw.
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The comments were an affront to his pride.
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He has avoided affronting unionist sensibility with tribal grievance against the English and there is no sign that he is motivated by such animus.
SNP: Westminster needs to take Alex Salmond seriously | Observer editorial
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The Kerner Report affronted white America by placing the blame for urban riots on white racism and entrenched patterns of discrimination.
Burial for a King
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“He affronted polite society, conformed to no one's dictates, lived like an ascetic and worked like a packmule,” says a contemporary.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
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Broad-spectrum marketing will attract readers for whom having to look up "cathected" or "brisant" isn't just an irritant but a moral affront.
NYT > Home Page
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My pride bleeds, that is all; and I give you my word of honor that if you ever affront me by going to justify me, I shall never in my life see you or her.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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This diplomatic affront by Israel upon Turkey, this outright ignoration of all of the rules of Feng Shui has us all now right on the verge of Nuclear World War III.
OpEdNews - Diary: Haiti 7.0 6 Israel Turkey Feng Shui Row Seven Signs of the Apocalypse
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While lesser men, perhaps those not dubbed the "brainiest" man on Capitol Hill by congressional staffers, might worry about accountability, Frank considers it an affront, given his personal and professional record.
Top Democrats in Denial - Jonah Goldberg - Townhall Conservative
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Jack spun round, affronted by this assault on his dignity.
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Meantime, Jan's prestige had been lowered in the eyes of half a dozen other dogs, each one of whom would certainly presume upon the unresented affront they had seen put upon him by their common enemy.
Jan A Dog and a Romance
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The waiters are friendly without being affrontingly informal, and the prices are eminently fair — the most a meal can cost (as of this writing) is $85 a head for a weekend-night prix fixe, or about a third of what you’ll end up paying at the French Laundry or Alain Ducasse.
Cooking Up a Storm
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David came to the crown kings were sometimes his companions; they visited him and he returned their visits; but he did not, in complaisance to them, talk of every thing but religion, for fear of affronting them and making his conversation uneasy to them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this.
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In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
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He more likely regarded his father's experience as an affront to family dignity, which it was his duty to repair.
My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile
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It is likewise not obvious that they have a right to go about dressed in a manner that is an affront to those among their fellows who have just as good a right as any to be where they are, such as in the streets and public squares and so on.
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Pretending to honor God by direct disobedience is peculiarly affrontive.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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Perhaps the biggest affront is to the music and lyrics of Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh.
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That is an affront to people in temporary accommodation and in housing stress.
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And if Smith's economic ideas affronted the paternalism of the traditional Tory party, they were eventually taken up by William Pitt the Younger, the late-18th-century prime minister who is now seen as one of the fathers of free-market conservatism.
A Wealth Of Ideas
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Mrs Baynard was continually surrounded by a train of expensive loungers, under the denominations of language-masters, musicians, painters, and ciceroni; and had actually fallen into the disease of buying pictures and antiques upon her own judgment, which was far from being infallible — At length she met with an affront, which gave her disgust to Italy, and drove her back to England with some precipitation.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Listen, for example, to Sir Thomas Brownes excuse for publishing Religio Medici (1643): Had not almost every man suffered by the press or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations.
XI. Of Selection
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Those whom you love may see your desire to escape as an affront, a rejection.
Times, Sunday Times
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Had not almost every man suffered by the press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly, imprinted: complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations.
Religio Medici
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The high gothic Viennetta-type desserts are a tad déclassé and something of an affront to the pared down chic of Ms Ireland.
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It does mean that he is completely blind to the notion of gentile privilege, is completely disinterested in viewing things from a Jewish perspective or taking our voice and experience seriously as something as valuable, and views it as an affront if anyone calls him on it or attempts to inform him that his views are not unimpeachable on the subject.
The Debate Link
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Crown, a lion sejant affronté erect gu.; imperially crowned, holding in the dexter paw a sword, and in the sinister paw a sceptre, both erect and ppr. _; with the motto -- IN: DEFENSE; assumed by JAMES V.; borne by
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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The policy was an affront to our values and a needless insult to our friends.
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All, however, recognized that it was an affront to academic freedom and a violation of faculty autonomy.
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His speech was an affront to all decent members of the community.
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I suggested to some republican members of the delegation from his State, the giving him, either directly or indirectly, an office, the most lucrative in that State, and then offered to be resigned, if they thought he would not deem it affrontive.
The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia
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Shchukin grasped at once that Nymph and Satyr was an affront to decency and morals, which only increased his impatience to possess it.
My Kind of Collector
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What I ought to know by now is that they think we already have one and they are it and they are appalled and affronted that there are people who don't agree and don't plan to just go along with their princely and princessly dreams.
Lance Mannion:
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In his Pride reserved for peacocks, it is shown statant affronty with the tail feathers spread.
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Raids were also conducted on premises to look for any behavior which might affront public morals.
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By contrast, bureaucrats tend to regard advice from superiors as an affront and are not shy about saying so.
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Some were affronted that he brought into daylight memories best elided.
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Lord Wyatt, the Master, seemed to take every check and every lost line as a personal affront.
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Hilary: Those that mourn, that is, not loss of kindred, affronts, or losses, but who weep for past sins.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
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The same want of kindling power in the national intelligence which made of the English Reformation one of the most sluggish and tedious chapters in our history, has made the still mightier advance of the moderns from the social system and spiritual bases of the old state, in spite of our two national achievements of punishing a king with death and emancipating our slaves, just as unimpressive and semi-efficacious a performance in this country, as the more affrontingly hollow and halt-footed transactions of the sixteenth century.
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron
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And they seem personally affronted if you ask them to clear something up.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't consider an insensitive person who won't pick up after their dog an affront to my personal beliefs.
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We experience the driver who unthinkingly cuts us off on the road as committing an aggressive act, the people in the security line at the airport who are moving too slowly as personally affronting us.
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They seem affronted by the question.
Times, Sunday Times
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The murderous vendetta lasted years and involved disputes over a razorback hog and various other affronts to family dignity.
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His no-show for any reason other than a personal trauma is a disgrace and an affront to local democracy.
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His casualness irritated Adriana; it had the savor of a deliberate affront.
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Some will argue that this is an affront to personal freedom.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they see you refusing to have the time of your life, they will take it as a personal affront.
Times, Sunday Times
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The affront is said to have taken place in the "Iron Blood Bulletin Board Community.
Boing Boing
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y, containing my seething affront at Jek's obvious assumption about us.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Discretion, as usual, prevailed, and the meeting voted that the replies were "daringly affrontive" to the town, and then dissolved.
Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
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It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this.
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The Presidential assistants were prepared to affront political obstacles, but their "grace and their airy flanerie" (2) had shielded them from the brutal side of American life.
Signs of the Times
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But I bet she doesn't spin her son's decisions as an impassable ideological gulf and an affront to his mother.
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Excluding an individual on the basis of marital status or sexual orientation is an affront to that person's dignity.
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Se la vita ci richiede di camminare su un sol piede non conviene indietreggiare ma piuttosto affrontare ed il nuovo fronteggiare anche se in tali congiunture si fanno avanti vecchie paure che prospettano sciagure per tutte le zone oscure, succede di reagire in modo scomposto con la ragione fuori posto, ci si ribella alla creazione si va in sterile ribellione ci si arrende mancando l'occasione invece di appogiarsi al bastone.
Sicily Scene
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Surely tearing up the Pope's picture was meant as a symbolic gesture, not a personal affront.
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It is a most ill-natured thing, and the bane of friendship, to retain the resentment of affronts and injuries, and to let that word devour for ever.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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This he did not say merely out of vanity and arrogance, or that he were willing, without any advantage, to offend the nobility; but the people always delighting in affronts and scurrilous contumelies against the senate, making boldness of speech their measure of greatness of spirit, continually encouraged him in it, and strengthened his inclination not to spare persons of repute, so he might gratify the multitude.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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If a man notoriously and designedly insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behavior, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Listen, for example, to Sir Thomas Brownes excuse for publishing Religio Medici (1643): Had not almost every man suffered by the press or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations.
XI. Of Selection
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Patrick Smith's "Passage to Peking" Oxford University Press, 591 pages, $34.95 , an acerbic and fair-minded study, examines an obscure historical episode from 1954, when left-wing sympathizers from the Labour Party set off to visit Mao's China, a trip that would likely never have taken place if not for what Mr. Smith calls the "affronted patriotism" of the British in the face of American power.
They Never Got Over Yorktown
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The Ambassador was slightly affronted, but nevertheless he made some transmissions.
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Even more than other nonkosher foods, pork is seen by many Israelis as an affront to Jewish nationalism.
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The fact that Cosmos is such a classic tune makes this dull, flat rendition even more of an affront.
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To say these guys will be throwing up bricks is an affront to the fine profession of masonry.
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Surely tearing up the Pope's picture was meant as a symbolic gesture, not a personal affront.
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We weren't the least bit insulted at such an affront to our then easy going, leisurely ways.
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Our submission is that it is an affront to the administration of justice if the continuation of the proceedings would be an abuse.
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His brother Austen, affronted by the lack of respect paid to his seniority, reluctantly accepted the Admiralty outside the Cabinet.
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Although well warned, she takes the letter in which she is notified that her benefits are to end as a personal affront.
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Secondly, I thinkmost Democrats are still too loyal to their party to undertake such an affrontive move.
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Hill is affronted by the World Cup winner's aloofness and relates an incident in which, after a match at Old Trafford, the United No9 pointedly asks him why he's drinking in the players' lounge.
Who's the sycophant in the black? | Harry Pearson
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It wasn't bad quality football that I feared, but the vocal opinions of those affronted by coverage of women playing a ‘man's’ game.
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She was affronted at his conduct.
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It seems to consist of an affront to the dignity of the House or a Member of it.
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They are continually blaspheming, which affronts him and moves his anger.
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They are extremely affronted if their presence is in any way demeaned or overlooked.
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This is not simply an affront to the detainees, but to all of us.
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And I can't promise that I'll never write another confronting, affronting, difficult character because I absolutely will.
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He felt deeply affronted at her rudeness.
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A collection of individuals yet we feel that any expression of individuality is an affront to community.
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Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations.
On The Art of Reading