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affronted

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1. affronted - Adjective

2. affronted - Verb

Meaning

of Affront

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. Samuel Richardson

What happened to you?” Jace looked affronted. "What happened to me?” Alec shook him, not lightly. "You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?” "A long one?” Jace suggested. Cassandra Clare

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. Oliver Goldsmith

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't. Edward T. Hall

Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility. Boris Johnson

Throughout the ages, in keeping with their ideological proclivities, gentlemen historians have tended to dismiss the populares of the Roman Republic as self aggrandizing demagogues who affronted constitutional principles by encroaching upon the Senate's dominain. Michael Parenti

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