Affronts Synonyms and Antonyms

A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. insults
  2. slights
  3. outrages
  4. indignities
  5. wounds
  6. taunts
  7. contumelies
  8. offenses
  9. slaps
  10. assaults
  11. provocations
  12. irritations
  13. humiliations
Antonyms:
  1. pleasantries
  2. compliments
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Affronts Sentence Examples

  • But no state could long tolerate the affronts which English seamen offered Spain.

  • In addition to these affronts upon the state religion, he insulted the intelligence of the community by horseplay of the wildest description and by childish practical joking.

  • The affronts which his poverty emboldened stupid and low-minded men to offer to him would have broken a mean spirit into sycophancy, but made him rude even to ferocity.

  • He affronts every canon of taste, more by a radical absence, it would seem, of the sense of proportion than by any desire to shock.

  • At a time of such love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels and affronts matter?

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