affront

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++af·front1 /əˈfrʌnt/ verb [transitive] formal  OFFENDto offend or insult someone, especially by not showing respect 侮辱；冒犯be affronted by something He stepped back, affronted by the question. 他觉得这个问题语带冒犯，退后了几步。→ See Verb table

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affront• Any breach of individual liberties affronts and incenses us.• His brother Austen, affronted by the lack of respect paid to his seniority, reluctantly accepted the Admiralty outside the Cabinet.• He hated it, kicked it when it affronted him.• Buying an airline seemed foolhardy and unnecessarily ostentatious: it affronted his sense of proportion.• And what affronts the system most of all is the idea that the state could help to support women's independence.affront2 noun [countable usually singular]  INSULTa remark or action that offends or insults someone 侮辱；冒犯affront to The comments were an affront to his pride. 那些话伤害了他的自尊。

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affront• When self-regard is so shatteringly undermined, the symbols of a former shaky greatness become almost an affront.• Nonconformists saw slavery as an affront to their religion; utilitarians dismissed it as inefficient.• By contrast, bureaucrats tend to regard advice from superiors as an affront and are not shy about saying so.• This is both an affront and a challenge.• Only boys like the ones at Ferguson could carry off such an affront.• She felt that his behaviour was an affront to her dignity as a human being.• But the Lower East Side was merely squalid-an intolerable affront to respectable folk.• That had been the coldest of affronts to her family and even to her own heart.• Though I only intended it as a joke, he took it as a personal affront.• The two are said to have been turned into lions because of some affront offered either to Zeus or to Aphrodite.• Lucy was so shocked by these affronts that she remained speechless for the rest of the evening.Origin affront1 (1300-1400) Old French afronter, from Vulgar Latin affrontare “to hit in the face”, from Latin ad- “to” + frons “forehead”

af·front1 verbaffront2 nounChineseSyllable  

offend Corpus showing or someone, by especially to insult not

affront

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af‧front¹ /əˈfrʌnt/ verb [transitive usually passive] formalto offend or insult someone, especially by not showing respect:
    He stepped back, affronted by the question.

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affront² noun [countable usually singular]
a remark or action that offends or insults someone
    affront to
    The comments were an affront to his pride.