as in offending
to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in
did not mean to affront you when I told you I didn't need your help
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as in insulting
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for affronting
Verb
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Patrick doesn’t waste time insulting Ellen about her relationship with Edward, never mind that, as Ellen points out, Edward’s the reason Patrick’s a free man.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025 -
Posts garnered thousands of replies from people calling for her job, insulting her appearance and using her post as a reason for a general disdain of left-leaning people.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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By Wednesday afternoon, DHS appears to have taken down the Von-offending video.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2025
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The woman marked the offending area with red thread and put it aside, to be sent to the factory’s repair sector.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Sep. 2025
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Don’t say that outrageous remarks by a Fox News commentator caused a mass shooting at a homeless encampment in Minneapolis.—
Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There are questions about Towns, who is a very potent offensive threat but hasn't lived up to his potential defensively.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The change also aligned with the WHO’s guidelines for naming diseases, which emphasize avoiding names that are offensive to cultural groups, or that negatively impact trade, tourism, or animal welfare.—
Dr. Nikki Romanik,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Honor is not, in Mr. Sommers’s view, without its opprobrious aspects, not least its association with violence.—
Joseph Epstein,
WSJ,
3 Aug. 2018
Adjective
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The man also had a history of being abusive to partners, the Morning Herald reported.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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The strong aroma of abusive conduct in the Comey case might incline the judge, Michael Nachmanoff, to adopt a more skeptical approach to the charges.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The assaults, Quinn’s office said, included indecent touchings and rapes that occurred in the two South Coast communities.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
23 Sep. 2025
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Former Premier League referee David Coote has been charged with making an indecent image of a child.—
Ali Rampling,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In the years intervening, the poem has remained a lodestar, a contravening presence when, in present day America’s vituperative political landscape, the humanities disciplines and higher education itself has been forced to invoke and defend its own authority.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Even the company’s most vituperative detractors acknowledge its engineering genius and applaud its success in driving down launch expenses (unlike many defense contractors, SpaceX largely eats the cost of its failures).—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
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“Affronting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affronting. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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