Exempel på affronted

• 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.

• Prince feels affronted by gifts.

• People are affronted by advice to concrete over their gardens or instructions to turn off their hoses, because it has the stench of hypocrisy.

• My constituent is affronted that her fiance's birth certificate should be disbelieved.

• They were quite affronted at the idea that they would make a false declaration.

• They also expressed the view of their constituents that people were affronted that such a thing should be permitted.

• They have been affronted by the number of times they have been stopped by the police at road blocks.

• The police are there precisely to discover whether an allegation made by a damaged or affronted person is correctly made against a specific person.