Usually means: Causing offense by being disrespectful.
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  1. affronting: Merriam-Webster
  2. affronting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. affronting: Vocabulary.com
  4. affronting: Wordnik
  5. affronting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. affronting: Wiktionary
  7. Affronting, affronting: Dictionary.com
  8. Affronting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Affronting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. affronting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. affronting: FreeDictionary.org
  12. affronting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affronting: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The offering of an affront.
▸ adjective:  Offensive, causing an affront.

Similar:
insult, affrontment, offense, accosting, face off, affray, face-off, presentation, insultathon, challenge, more...

Opposite:
complimentary, respectful, polite, courteous, admiring

Adjectives:
more, outrageous, same, less, mortal, final, noble, civil



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Similar:
insult, affrontment, offense, accosting, face off, affray, face-off, presentation, insultathon, challenge, more...

Opposite:
complimentary, respectful, polite, courteous, admiring

Adjectives:
more, outrageous, same, less, mortal, final, noble, civil



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