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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of affront.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Archive 2006-12-17 2006

  • 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.

    Tory Democracy: Hands Up for Bottom of the Class Francis Maude 2006

  • So Ng Yen Yen, please convey to Todt that I am 'affronted' and 'distressed' that somehow money is involved when he supposedly took the position voluntarily.

    Malaysiakini :: News 2009

  • Being easily hurt, they can feel "affronted" when spoken to by a non-HSP in tone that an HSP would not use.

    Article Source 2009

  • He used to be very kind of affronted that -- that Edward would not call him, you know, "Your Imperial Highness" because, you know, the kaiser said, "Look, I'm an emperor.

    Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy 2002

  • Hill is affronted by the World Cup winner's aloofness and relates an incident in which, after a match at Old Trafford, the United No9 pointedly asks him why he's drinking in the players' lounge.

    Who's the sycophant in the black? | Harry Pearson 2011

  • His words came out more affronted than he would have liked, but she just sniffed and turned her back on him.

    How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011

  • The Kerner Report affronted white America by placing the blame for urban riots on white racism and entrenched patterns of discrimination.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • And if Smith's economic ideas affronted the paternalism of the traditional Tory party, they were eventually taken up by William Pitt the Younger, the late-18th-century prime minister who is now seen as one of the fathers of free-market conservatism.

    A Wealth Of Ideas Jeffrey Collins 2010

  • And Dean, being such a butch guy, is always affronted on every level that people would think HE is gay.

    Supernatural's Gay Incest Subtext rabid1st 2009

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