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. Ken Paxton:

   Attempts by the Obama administration to disregard the will of our citizens through the use of new federal rules is unconstitutional and an affront to the foundations of federalism.

2. William F. Buckley Jr.:

   I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.

3. George Conway:

   I told President Donald Trump, I'd heard the recusal issue was pretty clear, that Sessions had to recuse President Donald Trump, president Donald Trump took great affront at that.

4. Interior Minister Jose Luis Perez:

   It's an affront to all Peruvians and to democracy.

5. Diane Black:

   This coercive measure would ban pro-life organizations in D.C. from even considering a job seeker's views on abortion as a condition of employment, this is an affront to the conscience rights of every American who believes, as I do, in the cause of protecting the unborn. Congress must not remain silent while this injustice unfolds.