Antonyms for affront
əˈfrʌntaf·front

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1. affront

   One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, irritate, offend, provoke, tease, vex, wound

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1. affront

   Antonyms:
   homage, salutation, courtesy, apology, amends, compliment

   Synonyms:
   outrage, provocation, insult, ill-treatment, abuse, wrong, offence, indignity

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1. insult, affrontverb

   a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect

   "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

   Synonyms:
   abuse, vilification, contumely, revilement, insult

2. diss, insult, affrontverb

   treat, mention, or speak to rudely

   "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"

   Synonyms:
   diss, insult

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1. affrontnoun

   Synonyms:
   indignity, insult, outrage, contumely, offense

How to use affront in a sentence?

1. Carlos Castaneda:

   A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart If it does, the path is good if it doesn't it is of no use.

2. New Orleans:

   These monuments have stood not as historic or educational markers of our legacy of slavery and segregation, but in celebration of it, to literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in some of our most prominent public places is not only an inaccurate reflection of our past, it is an affront to our present, and a bad prescription for our future. We should not be afraid to confront and reconcile our past.

3. Sam Liccardo:

   Smash-and-grab mobs are an affront to the hard work and safety of shoppers, retail workers and shopkeepers throughout the region, the expanded investment in license plate reader cameras add to the larger tool set law enforcement uses to apprehend organized burglary rings.

4. Hassan Nasrallah:

   What's new is the affront to the Lebanese state, at the end of the day, Hezbollah is an important part of the country. The Lebanese government will tell the Americans, as it has before, that these are a part we can not ignore.

5. Republican Representative Paul Gosar:

   To continue honoring Bill Cosby with this prestigious accolade would be an affront to women nationwide, particularly those who were victims of his horrific acts.

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