Words similar to affront

Example sentences for: affront

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If, however, you are seriously unhappy with youngsters calling their elders by first names, no one could take affront with the "Aunt" or "Mrs."
"It is blatantly exploitative, smacks of the 'coolie culture,' and is a terrible affront to human dignity.
Anthony Burgess, in his Kingdom of the Wicked , remarks that Vespasian's own contemporaries designated street urinals as “vespasians,” certainly a much more ignominous affront because of its timeliness.
It parlays good politics into principle, by framing the ouster of a politically popular president as an affront to democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law.
The Taliban and other Islamists found their activities an affront to Islam and in violation of Afghanistan's laws and the regime's tenets.