| 单词 | affront |
| 释义 | af·front I. 1. a. < those who now smile upon and embrace would affront and stab each other if manners did not interpose — Earl of Chesterfield > b. < the prince affronted his father by embarking on a love affair — Geoffrey Bruun > 2. a. < affront death > b. archaic c. obsolete 3. < the still fresh scar on the hillside which affronts the traveler's eye — Norman Douglas > 4. archaic Synonyms: see offend II. 1. a. < in this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life — Scott Fitzgerald > b. < for the Greeks, the Roman Empire was a necessity of life and at the same time an intolerable affront — A.J.Toynbee > 2. obsolete Synonyms: < an old affront will stir the heart through years of rankling pain — Jean Ingelow > < my determination to break this educational lockstep was an affront to their pride as schoolmasters — Sidney Lovett > insult refers to a personal attack intended to rankle and humiliate < the insults offered to the Federal troops by the women of New Orleans — W.C.Ford > < he suffered the greatest insult ever offered to a man in the House of Commons: when he entered with the Liberal party, the Conservatives rose to a man and left the House — O.S.J.Gogarty > indignity indicates an outrageous or contemptuous offense to one's personal dignity < that after all which had passed he should be compelled to accept his pardon at Caesar's hands was an indignity to which he could not submit — J.A.Froude > < to nearly all men serfdom was, without qualification, a degrading thing, and they found trenchant phrases to describe the indignity of the condition — R.W.Southern > |
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