Synonyms 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.

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

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

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1. affront

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

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

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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. affrontverb

   Synonyms:
   insult, abuse, outrage

2. affrontverb

   Synonyms:
   offend, displease, irritate, provoke, chafe, fret, vex, annoy, pique, nettle, anger, gall, MIFF, give offence to, make angry

3. affrontnoun

   Synonyms:
   insult, abuse, contumely, indignity, outrage, injury, wrong, ill-treatment, ill-turn

4. affrontnoun

   Synonyms:
   provocation, offence

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1. affrontnoun

   Synonyms:
   indignity, insult, outrage, contumely, offense

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1. List of paraphrases for "affront":

   insult, outrage, snub, shame, slur, mockery, offence, offense

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How to use affront in a sentence?

1. Susan Sontag:

   For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

2. Marcy Kaptur:

   The idea that anyone, much less a candidate for the United States Congress, would mislead voters about their service in combat is an affront to every man and woman who has proudly worn the uniform of our great country. J.R. Majewski owes each of these heroes a full explanation about his deception.

3. Zainab Bangura:

   It is extremely sad for me therefore to hear of the recent incident where a woman named Hannah was raped and killed on a public beach and pictures widely circulated in social media with no respect for her dignity, it is also an affront to our country, our people and our government. It shows a disdain for the women of Sierra Leone.

4. Antony Blinken:

   Such actions violate the Olympic spirit, are an affront to basic rights, and cannot be tolerated.

5. Lewis Mudge:

   The UK's decision to go ahead with expulsions of asylum seekers to Rwanda Rwanda is an affront to its international obligations and quite simply cruel.