affront

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1. affront - Noun

2. affront - Verb

Meaning

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.

To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.

An encounter either friendly or hostile.

Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

An offense to one's self-respect; shame.

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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Jonathan Swift

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. William Cowper

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. William F. Buckley

Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors. Ian Fleming

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. George Bernard Shaw

I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that. Megyn Kelly

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