Definitions for affront

affront af·front

Spelling: [uh-fruhnt]
IPA: /əˈfrʌnt/

Affront is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in affront (affnort).

Definitions for affront

noun

  1. a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult:
  2. an offense to one's dignity or self-respect.

verb (used with object)

  1. to offend by an open manifestation of disrespect or insolence:
  2. to make ashamed or confused; embarrass.
  3. Archaic. to front; face; look on.
  4. Obsolete. to meet or encounter face to face; confront.

Origin of affront

1300-50; Middle English afrounten Middle French af(f)ronter to strike in the face Vulgar Latin *affrontāre, derivative of Latin phrase ad frontem at or toward the forehead (as the seat of one

Examples for affront

Rape and sexual assault on college campuses are “an affront to our basic decency and humanity,” President Obama said yesterday.

The young lady would not affront him by refusing to take some syrup.

This affront to common sense and common decency is difficult to defend.

Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.

The reality-based community might have a difficult time fending off these two fronts of affront.

It would be an affront to your own judgment, if you did not: For do you not ask my advice?

If he did not kiss the lilac he was sure to suffer an affront.

What had been shrugged off in, say, California, was greeted in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio, and Michigan as an affront.

Your coming here is an affront, an impertinence, an audacity.

I knocked him down, telling him that it was he that was the savage to affront a lady.

Word Value for affront
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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