affront
noun
a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult.
will affront
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future tenseof affront.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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I'm feared your recruit will affront us again.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
She answered with the same good humour, `I must absolutely be excused: for I will affront neither so much as to give my judgment on his side.'
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
My lord," answered Bors, "it is a great thing you require of me, for if I grant your request I will affront many of my Round Table comrades.
From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
So I will affront the condemnatory vagueness of wool and fleecy cloud, be content to think that nobody will care where I praise, that everybody will think me impertinent where I judge.
From A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George
Trifles will affront us; that Fine fighting Stripling.
From The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont
