affrontive

How to use affrontive in a sentence

• Pretending to honor God by direct disobedience is peculiarly affrontive.

  Sermons on Various Important Subjects | Andrew Lee

• Their behaviour to him, when they could not help seeing him, was very cold and disobliging; but as yet not directly affrontive.

  Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) | Samuel Richardson

• As to the Scotch, their barbarisms that are to be found even in print, are affrontive to the descendants of Englishmen.

  A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. | Benjamin Waterhouse