How to Use affront in a Sentence

affront

1 of 2 verb

• Snowden says he was affronted by the rank hypocrisy of it all.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• There needs to be a very direct conversation about standards and a hard dose of affronting honesty.
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
• Its product refuses to entertain while its meta events such as the Oscars affront those who are naïve enough to beg it for escapism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 Apr. 2021
• The two women, initially welcomed, soon affront their hosts with their pesky independence of mind and spirit.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
• Would some people be affronted by the use of the Harvard wall as a display area for the bodies of the executed?
  — Margaret Atwood, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
• Spearing his eggs Benedict with salmon, the silver-bearded star appears almost affronted when asked.
  — Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 1 Oct. 2023
• She’s known to personally reach out to attendees who have felt affronted by her material.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
• They felt affronted by companies like Uber that were refusing to abide by even modest regulations.
  — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• But Johnson also affronted the public by consorting with and marrying white women.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2018
• Many Mexicans were affronted by the timing, and Pena Nieto faced a firestorm of criticism at home.
  — Julie Pace, Orange County Register, 26 Jan. 2017
• Once inside the cave, though, Aladdin can't resist grabbing a jade necklace for Jasmine, affronting the cave, which collapses and traps him and the lamp inside.
  — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The Sixers’ most obvious failing came on offense in the face of the Heat’s personal-space-affronting defensive pressure.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• So the reader who is affronted by my views on police brutality or any other topic has every right to call me names, but no reasonable expectation of any response beyond a tap of the delete button.
  — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Aug. 2017
• While personally affronted that Kitt would so publicly criticize him in the White House, Johnson knew why people protested.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2018
• The weaving of such a powerful — and in the view of some true believers, actually magical — drug within the broader social fabric may affront some true-believing psychonauts’ own purity tests.
  — John Semley, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025
• Other customers show up without masks, occasionally reacting belligerently or as if personally affronted when asked to put on a mask or practice social distancing.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2020
• For a sense of how Raheem Sterling might be feeling right now, consider that this is a player who felt affronted from the moment his starting place at Manchester City began to come under threat.
  — Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
• Perhaps their punishment will deter others who might similarly endeavor to overthrow a free and fairly conducted election, affronting the country’s values and assaulting our democracy with their deceit.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
• The administration’s statements and actions have affronted Iraqis by appearing to ignore their sovereignty, which is still a sore subject for a country the United States invaded.
  — Linda S. Robinson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
• Any needless death is a terrible thing, but generating an immense controversy over a phenomenon that, though despicable, is relatively rare, and doing so by affronting the entire country, never made any sense.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
• Thinking about it that way invests meaning in an anecdote Norris related about a member of the copy department so affronted by something a colleague had done that she was inspired to pick up an object and hurl it in that colleague’s general direction.
  — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• Attention also has centered on, among other things, the misuse of AI, deepfakes, hallucinations, AI’s effect on jobs, and safeguarding values that certain AI applications might affront.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
• Many Idaho liberals of all ages were especially affronted by the fact that the Israeli government paid for the lawmakers’ travel, said Olivia Luna, the president of Idaho’s Babe Vote, who signed the letter as an individual calling for Rubel’s resignation.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Sep. 2025

affront

2 of 2 noun

• He regarded her rude behavior as a personal affront.
• All that mattered was the affront to the king.
  — Óscar Martínez & Carlos Martínez, The Dial, 16 Sep. 2025
• To some of those near us, her spasms were clearly an affront.
  — Tom Levenson, Time, 20 May 2026
• Lawyers for plaintiffs called it an affront.
  — Miami Herald, 31 May 2026
• The voices in the bar of more recent times had been an affront to him.
  — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• The first affront might be the beckoning bed strewn with red rose petals.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 5 Feb. 2026
• Critics describe the move as an affront to free speech.
  — Diane Brady, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
• And treating a fashion faux pas as a racial affront isn’t a good look for the rest of us.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2022
• Schultz seemed to view the union campaign as a personal affront.
  — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2022
• To be ill in public was disgraceful, an affront.
  — Tom Levenson, Time, 20 May 2026
• Many considered the new gear an affront to the purity of the game.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2021
• Playing the rivalry at any other time would be an affront to all that’s good and holy.
  — Austin Meek, New York Times, 29 May 2026
• Failure then feels like a personal affront and gives the fans license to boo.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2022
• So, what should a tennis fan expect from this two-day jamboree, affront to the sport, or maybe both?
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
• Such moves are an affront to women and make the church look not just prudish but also extreme.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
• It could be seen as an affront to those countries whose applications have stalled for decades.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2022
• These things are murders and affronts to the dignity of human life.
  — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 28 Apr. 2026
• Lying awake at night, Sohel had been fearing this—an affront that couldn’t be borne.
  — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• The governor, a Democrat, called them an affront to free speech.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 13 June 2023
• Shaban’s chief response to this and other affronts is silence.
  — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
• Bryan disagreed that giving offenders the right to vote is an affront to victims.
  — Stefanie Dazio, ajc, 9 Feb. 2023
• To tear Mike Tyson off his heroic pedestal was, for many, a personal affront.
  — Max Gao, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• Some say the new product is an affront to authentic sports journalism.
  — PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
• But failure to try him is an affront not only to democracy but to decency.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Jackson is a walking affront waiting to happen.
  — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
• In an affront to the fans, the team increased ticket prices in the Coliseum.
  — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• What an affront to arguably the best, most supportive, most passionate fans on the planet.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
• Some of her colleagues appeared to see that as an affront, after Gohlstin had already advised against it.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• Given the choice of riding a horse or a mule on an elk hunt, for example, some folks will take affront at the prospect of sitting atop a mule.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• The letter said the plan was an affront to the rights of communities worst impacted by the crisis.
  — Jessie Yeung, Caitlin Hu and Ella Nilsen, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022