I. verb
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And what affronts the system most of all is the idea that the state could help to support women's independence.
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Any breach of individual liberties affronts and incenses us.
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Buying an airline seemed foolhardy and unnecessarily ostentatious: it affronted his sense of proportion.
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He hated it, kicked it when it affronted him.
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His brother Austen, affronted by the lack of respect paid to his seniority, reluctantly accepted the Admiralty outside the Cabinet.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
personal
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Rather did he wallow in a mood of self-pity, taking his son's desertion as a personal affront .
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An Aprista-sympathizing faculty member of the University Council challenged the Rector to a duel after allegedly suffering a personal affront .
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Surely tearing up the Pope's picture was meant as a symbolic gesture, not a personal affront .
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He would take it as a personal affront .
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Lord Wyatt, the Master, seemed to take every check and every lost line as a personal affront .
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Major Tzann could not help regarding it as something of a personal affront , an act of mute insubordination.
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Lucy was so shocked by these affronts that she remained speechless for the rest of the evening.
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She felt that his behaviour was an affront to her dignity as a human being.
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Though I only intended it as a joke, he took it as a personal affront .
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But the Lower East Side was merely squalid-an intolerable affront to respectable folk.
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By contrast, bureaucrats tend to regard advice from superiors as an affront and are not shy about saying so.
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Nonconformists saw slavery as an affront to their religion; utilitarians dismissed it as inefficient.
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Only boys like the ones at Ferguson could carry off such an affront .
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That had been the coldest of affronts to her family and even to her own heart.
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The two are said to have been turned into lions because of some affront offered either to Zeus or to Aphrodite.
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This is both an affront and a challenge.
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When self-regard is so shatteringly undermined, the symbols of a former shaky greatness become almost an affront .