Noun : an affront to the king. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : His speech affronted all of us. From Dictionary.com.
He could ask him what he thinks about the Lib Dems being so "affronted" by the Tory tactics in the Cheadle bye-bye-Tories-election. From Wordnik.com. [Tory Democracy: Hands Up for Bottom of the Class Francis Maude] Reference
Being easily hurt, they can feel "affronted" when spoken to by a non-HSP in tone that an HSP would not use. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
Will older siblings everywhere not feel affronted?. From Wordnik.com. [Miliband Vs. Miliband] Reference
Fra Tomasso looked surprised, even a bit affronted. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Kenny, affronted, was usually more capricious and elusive. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Mademoiselle feels herself affronted if any one stares at her!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So I was hurt at your words, and a little affronted to hear you. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
“Breakfast is not included,” I said, hospitality affronted. From Wordnik.com. [Pillow] Reference
"Snuff, indeed!" growled the angry crowd, affronted and glaring. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
Deoy - (shocked and affronted) Make funeral of my talk will you!?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question)] Reference
"Thou hast affronted thy rank for me, and I thank thee many times.". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Mr Pennant had affronted, threatened him with this terrible vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Whence the taunt of his cannon and banner had affronted so long the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
"Which means that you don't know me," she replied, not at all affronted. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
And in order to avoid being anatomised, he affronted the court at the Old. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
That movie will not do well because people will be affronted by the premise. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother Of All Critics] Reference
But Eleanor will not answer; she feels desperately affronted, and turns away. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Her pride was affronted; and yet it was not as if an inferior had rebuked her. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
In some it is Envy, because they think themselves affronted and injur'd by my great. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country] Reference
I was affronted by the idea of the unspoken insinuation verbalized by this request. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
KEYES: Were you affronted, though, that the person stepped to you in the first place?. From Wordnik.com. [Moms: Not My Business?] Reference
Woodward or his people either money, assistance, or clothes, but seemed quite affronted. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
"'Pears like he was affronted," she murmured, at last; and the big tears dropped slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Chambriss wore the affronted expression of a man who expected no interference with his own concerns. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
Only last Saturday he was so much affronted because Hamilton had asked leave for me to go into Bristol with him. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
The yellow-backs may have sometimes affronted the eye, but for the most part they were dove-like in their outlook. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28] Reference
Peters evidently was unaware how much his majesty had been affronted by his failure to present him with an umbrella. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
But governments and sundry busybodies seem affronted by the Internet, as they are by any unregulated sphere of life. From Wordnik.com. [Prohibition Ii: Good Grief] Reference
Masanath's name, spoken so familiarly, so boastingly, by the prince was fresh outrage to his already affronted heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
"He is a very aristocratic dog, and if any one fails to show him what he considers proper respect, he is greatly affronted.". From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
This was on Friday the 1st, in the evening; and what affronted them was, that after having had such a task committed to them, the. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850] Reference
He has too much good sense to be affronted at insults, he is too well employed to remember injuries, and too indolent to bear malice. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
He has too much good sense to be affronted at insults; he is too well employed to remember injuries, and too indolent to bear malice. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
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