Usually means: Direct insult or deliberate offense.
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  1. affront: Merriam-Webster
  2. affront: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affront: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affront: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affront: Vocabulary.com
  6. Affront, affront: Wordnik
  7. affront: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. affront: Wiktionary
  9. affront: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. affront: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. affront: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Affront, affront: Dictionary.com
  13. affront (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. affront: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Affront: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. affront: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. affront: Rhymezone
  18. Affront (m), affront, affront (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. affront: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. affront: FreeDictionary.org
  21. affront: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. affront: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. affront: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. affront: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. affront: Merriam-Webster

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  1. affront: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (affront)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To insult intentionally, especially openly.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To meet defiantly; to confront.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
▸ noun:  An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

Similar:
insult, assail, pelt, shirt-front, bash about, choose violence, lash out, savage, scorch, eat someone alive, more...

Opposite:
compliment, praise, flattery

Types:
insult, offense, slight, indignity, provocation, outrage, more...

Phrases:
an affront, affront to religious dogma, more...

Adjectives:
personal, such, direct, great, public, deliberate, serious, intolerable, gross, mortal, open

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Similar:
insult, assail, pelt, shirt-front, bash about, choose violence, lash out, savage, scorch, eat someone alive, more...

Opposite:
compliment, praise, flattery

Types:
insult, offense, slight, indignity, provocation, outrage, more...

Phrases:
an affront, affront to religious dogma, more...

Adjectives:
personal, such, direct, great, public, deliberate, serious, intolerable, gross, mortal, open

Colors:
    red,     crimson,     scarlet,     maroon,     burgundy, more...



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