A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect.
To put someone down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.
1 Making decisions by lottery is often seen as an affront to justice.
2 The Seanad has limited powers and is a gross affront to democracy.
3 Rights groups say that it is an affront to basic human rights.
4 The odds against success of such an affront to authority are long.
5 Its truth was a blazing affront in the face of age-old autocracy.
6 He seemed to regard the bustle and hammering as a personal affront .
7 The existence of these varied contradictorinesses seems to him a personal affront .
8 Bruce seemed to take the nurse-disguise as a personal affront to himself.
9 That's a direct affront to the celibacy pledge taken by Catholic priests.
10 Only it seemed unnecessary to affront them in your very first sermon.
11 It is an affront to the Government, to the United States Government.
12 Women warriors are an affront to Mars for a very good reason.
13 And now I am avenged for the affront you put upon me.
14 Quite possibly the dole may affront some owner of houses and lands.
15 But every instant after threw new and varied lights on the affront .
16 His presence and his meddling is an affront to the intelligence of-
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