0 past simple and past participle of affront
His decision affronted conventional logic, and bequeathed a controversy to be pondered in perpetuity.
Affronted by the king's inaction, the four shipmasters elected to bombard the town, but this proved counter-productive.
They provided no more than mediocre social care and medical treatment, and generally affronted the residents' individuality, privacy and dignity.
To have done so would have affronted their descendants-one point of preserving and replicating historical memory was to assert a relationship with previous generations of leaders.
We should not be too eager to dismiss the affronted language of churchwardens as formulaic rhetoric that was cynically deployed in an attempt to humiliate unpopular and anti-social neighbours.
Seemingly affronted by these restrictions, the entrepreneurial chef had, in any case, spotted an alternative opportunity to use his skill and fame to capitalize on the event.
On this view, the intrinsic character of offense differs from harm in that it need involve no damage apart from the affronted mental state that is caused to the victim.
Psychological harm is something that does exist, and on occasion it may be caused by offensive conduct,50 but it consists of more than the state of being affronted.
