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Meanings of personal affront in English

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Usage of personal affront in English
1
He seemed to regard the bustle and hammering as a personal affront.
Chicken Little Jane
2
The existence of these varied contradictorinesses seems to him a personal affront.
By the Christmas Fire
3
Bruce seemed to take the nurse-disguise as a personal affront to himself.
Bruce
4
They took the disappearance of their Crown Prince as a personal affront.
Faerie Wars
5
The mystery had become so exasperating as to be a personal affront.
The Gods Themselves
6
Don't take as a personal affront what was a common, vulgar crime.
From Sand Hill to Pine
7
He considered it a personal affront: Logic and progress should automatically trump superstition.
Sisterhood of Dune
8
Moreau's wife, in particular resented the supremacy of Josephine as a personal affront.
Napoleon Bonaparte
9
What he saw in the Harkers' bedroom was a personal affront.
Anno Dracula
10
Jalil himself considered the GNA's decision a personal affront and offered his resignation.
The South African
11
Those in my care seemed to regard my attentions as a personal affront.
A Yankee in the Trenches
12
Suárez takes it as a personal affront, maybe even an act of aggression.
The Guardian
13
Mr. Fentolin has decided to take it as a personal affront.
The Vanished Messenger
14
Sigurd, by contrast, seemed to take his countryman's presence as a personal affront.
Siege of heaven
15
Each man at once took this call to duty as a personal affront.
The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil Wa...
16
What he objected to in this particular killing was the personal affront to him.
A Man Four-Square
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Personal affront through the time
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common