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affrontive

[ uh-fruhn-tiv ]

adjective

Archaic.
  1. insulting; offensive.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ڰDzt·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of affrontive1

First recorded in 1650–60; affront + -ive
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Example Sentences

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And, oh, the things he does to keep our attention — swinging from a cable like a hyperactive monkey, stripping down to the affrontive altogether, urinating in a triumphal arc, getting cozy with audience members as he roves the aisles, making fun of the projected supertitles that translate his German into English.

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How affrontive it is to despise mercy.

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As to the Scotch, their barbarisms that are to be found even in print, are affrontive to the descendants of Englishmen.

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I have never heard of anything, and I cannot conceive of anything, more absurd and more affrontive of all sober judgment than the cry that we are getting indemnity by the acquisition of New Mexico and California.

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It was then voted, that the letter, signed Richard Clarke & Son, Benjamin Faneuil, for self and Joshua Winslow, Esqr., and also the letter signed Thomas Hutchinson, which had been read, were daringly affrontive to the Town, and the meeting was immediately dissolved.

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