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affront
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affront as in:  an affront to society

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    At least they too were covered in grease smudges, completing the affront.†  (source)
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    I'm prepared, therefore, to forgive your affront to me.†  (source)
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    He said it as if it were almost an affront.†  (source)
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    POLLY CHAPMAN (standing, full of affront): No. No.†  (source)
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    He looks up at me, affronted, almost startled.†  (source)
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    She had a casual way of ignoring affronts, slipping past insults to her whiteness like a seasoned boxer slips punches.†  (source)
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    For the opposite reason, Prince John hated and contemned the few Saxon families of consequence which subsisted in England, and omitted no opportunity of mortifying and affronting them; being conscious that his person and pretensions were disliked by them, as well as by the greater part of the English commons, who feared farther innovation upon their rights and liberties, from a sovereign of John's licentious and tyrannical disposition.†  (source)
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    Fostering the boy elsewhere would be a grievous affront to him.†  (source)
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    "I'm sweet," she said, affronted, and holding back his license.†  (source)
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    Although that was not her intention, it was the correct way to respond to anonymous letters from a class accustomed by the affronts of history to bow before faits accomplis.†  (source)
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    To speak frankly, many are sexual deviants, either terribly repressed and subject to explosions of frenzied lasciviousness or openly depraved, in either case regularly affronting management with gross outrages of free sex and incest.†  (source)
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    That's when Christian realized that Adam's crazy driving wasn't a personal affront.†  (source)
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    It affronted his dignity to shout, but it would have offended his pride to order the music lower.†  (source)
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