Antonyms for affront
əˈfrʌntaf·front

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1. affront

   One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, irritate, offend, provoke, tease, vex, wound

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1. affront

   Antonyms:
   homage, salutation, courtesy, apology, amends, compliment

   Synonyms:
   outrage, provocation, insult, ill-treatment, abuse, wrong, offence, indignity

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1. insult, affrontverb

   a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect

   "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

   Synonyms:
   abuse, vilification, contumely, revilement, insult

2. diss, insult, affrontverb

   treat, mention, or speak to rudely

   "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"

   Synonyms:
   diss, insult

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1. affrontnoun

   Synonyms:
   indignity, insult, outrage, contumely, offense

How to use affront in a sentence?

1. Carlos Castaneda:

   A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart If it does, the path is good if it doesn't it is of no use.

2. George Conway:

   I told President Donald Trump, I'd heard the recusal issue was pretty clear, that Sessions had to recuse President Donald Trump, president Donald Trump took great affront at that.

3. United States:

   The Department of Justice believes that Yale has been the victim of a crime perpetrated by a former coach who no longer works at the university, the corrupt behavior alleged by the Department of Justice is an affront to United States university's deeply held values of inclusion and fairness.

4. Koch Industries:

   The horrific and abhorrent aggression against Ukraine is an affront to humanity.

5. Republican Representative Paul Gosar:

   To continue honoring Bill Cosby with this prestigious accolade would be an affront to women nationwide, particularly those who were victims of his horrific acts.

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