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an affront

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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

In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald

I speak a language full and intelligible. I deal not in hints and intimations. [...] First, that I may be clearly understood. Secondly, that it may be seen I am in earnest; and, thirdly, because it is an affront to truth to treat falsehood with complaisance. Thomas Paine

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. Thomas Paine

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