affront
noun
a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult.
was affronting
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past progressiveof affront.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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They were meekly going to their tasks while he was affronting men with more millions than he had checks on the newest suit.
From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson
But the mere disorder on the washstand, a towel lying on one of the cane chairs, made him feel that he was affronting decency, and so increased his jaunty nervousness.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
And this was his friend, the first heart-friend the child had ever had, perhaps the only one that would ever come to him, and he was affronting him, casting him off, accusing him of vileness!
From Nautilus by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
No doubt his purpose had slowly grown while his father was affronting Heaven with his mania for idols.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
