What could all this mean but an intentional affront?
Most things connected with husbands were not talked about; and to have a whole dinner-table taken up with a discussion as to where one of them should sleep was an affront to the decencies.
She did not dare affront him.
, Fostering the boy elsewhere would be a grievous affront to him.
, Some trifling affront.
Instead of seeing every inconvenience or frustration as a personal affront, imagine a benign explanation.
He is ready with his strong northern bow to smite the Tartar chieftain -- That never a foreign war-dress may affront the Emperor.
She did not dare affront him, for she understood the pride of artists.
The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear.
But the vizir, wiser than his master, wished to conceal from the public the affront they had received, and merely answered, "After all, we have only got what we deserved.
