affrontery

Noun

Meaning

Obsolete spelling of effrontery

An affront

Examples

Only the absence of honesty and of a true love of art provides some artists with the affrontery to live on stale cans of artistic economics stocked up for years, and, year in year out, until they are fifty, to mutter about what they had first started to talk about when they were twenty. Olga Rozanova

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