Definition of Affront

Affront

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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Affront Quotations

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

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

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

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
Jean Ingelow

This administration in Washington... clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make essential decisions for every American in every area. That mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American.
Rick Perry

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Rick Perry

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
Alexander Haig

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
Jon Corzine

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Affront Translations

affront in German is beleidigen, Beleidigung, angreifen
affront in Spanish is afrenta

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