单词	affront
释义	affront1 verbaffront2 noun affrontaf‧front1 /əˈfrʌnt/ verb [transitive] formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINaffront1 Origin: 1300-1400 Old French afronter, from Vulgar Latin affrontare ‘to hit in the face’, from Latin ad- ‘to’ + frons ‘forehead’ Verb Table VERB TABLE affront Simple Form Present I, you, we, they affront he, she, it affronts Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they affronted Present perfect I, you, we, they have affronted he, she, it has affronted Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had affronted Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will affront Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have affronted Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And what affronts the system most of all is the idea that the state could help to support women's independence. Any breach of individual liberties affronts and incenses us. Buying an airline seemed foolhardy and unnecessarily ostentatious: it affronted his sense of proportion. He hated it, kicked it when it affronted him. His brother Austen, affronted by the lack of respect paid to his seniority, reluctantly accepted the Admiralty outside the Cabinet. to offend or insult someone, especially by not showing respectbe affronted by something He stepped back, affronted by the question. affront1 verbaffront2 noun affrontaffront2 noun [countable usually singular] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Lucy was so shocked by these affronts that she remained speechless for the rest of the evening. She felt that his behaviour was an affront to her dignity as a human being. Though I only intended it as a joke, he took it as a personal affront. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But the Lower East Side was merely squalid-an intolerable affront to respectable folk. By contrast, bureaucrats tend to regard advice from superiors as an affront and are not shy about saying so. Nonconformists saw slavery as an affront to their religion; utilitarians dismissed it as inefficient. Only boys like the ones at Ferguson could carry off such an affront. That had been the coldest of affronts to her family and even to her own heart. The two are said to have been turned into lions because of some affront offered either to Zeus or to Aphrodite. This is both an affront and a challenge. When self-regard is so shatteringly undermined, the symbols of a former shaky greatness become almost an affront. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorwords or actions that insult someone► insult something rude that someone says or does to someone else, that offends their intelligence, character, or appearance etc: · Outside the pub, a drunk was shouting insults at everyone who came past.· You mustn't wear your shoes inside the temple -- it is a great insult.hurl insults (at somebody): · People were hurling insults at the players as they walked off the pitch.take something as an insult (=be insulted by it): · I said something about her new hairstyle and she took it as an insult. ► abuse rude, offensive, or unpleasant things that someone says to someone else, especially when they are angry: shout/scream/hurl abuse: · People were shouting abuse at the Prime Minister as he sped away in a large car.· An angry mob screamed abuse and hurled missiles during clashes with police yesterday.· Demonstrators hurled abuse at councillors as they entered the council building in Glasgow.term of abuse (=a word used to insult someone): · By the late 1970s, the word "hippie" had become a term of abuse.torrent/stream of abuse (=a lot of abuse): · Leaning out of the window, he let loose a stream of abuse. ► affront formal a remark or action that offends someone because it treats them without any respect: affront to: · She felt that his behaviour was an affront to her dignity as a human being.· Lucy was so shocked by these affronts that she remained speechless for the rest of the evening.personal affront: · Though I only intended it as a joke, he took it as a personal affront. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► personal · Rather did he wallow in a mood of self-pity, taking his son's desertion as a personal affront.· An Aprista-sympathizing faculty member of the University Council challenged the Rector to a duel after allegedly suffering a personal affront.· Surely tearing up the Pope's picture was meant as a symbolic gesture, not a personal affront.· He would take it as a personal affront.· Lord Wyatt, the Master, seemed to take every check and every lost line as a personal affront.· Major Tzann could not help regarding it as something of a personal affront, an act of mute insubordination. a remark or action that offends or insults someoneaffront to The comments were an affront to his pride.
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