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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After such a declaration, nobody, I presume, will affront me by asking them.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
The old ship-keeper, sitting alone smoking on the hatchway in the evening before unloading begins, will affront one with his presence.
From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains
You will affront her mortally if you fail to be present.
From The Deputy of Arcis by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Trifles will affront us; that Fine fighting Stripling.
From The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont
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
