affront
noun
a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult.
has affronted
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present perfectof affront (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I know I ought to hate this woman, because she has affronted me thus grossly; but yet, I cannot help it, I must love her.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
He tells me his was a very strange letter, and that probably it has affronted you.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
He thinks he has affronted me, now I have seen through him, and that I shall be against meeting him.
From The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
The stubborn Dorothy shall come to me on her knees—to me, Storri, whom she has affronted!
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
"If you will assure me that he has affronted you, and permit me to let him know, privately, the cause of my quarrel."
From An Enemy to the King by Robert Neilson Stephens
