Sentence examples for a gross affront from inspiring English sources

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Such a law, she says, would be "a gross affront to gays and lesbians everywhere".

And if anyone actually did ask him to do something, he considered it a "gross affront" to his dignity.

Similarly, one could call the rally a gross affront to the memory of King, who presumably wouldn't have cared much for Beck's right-wing politics.

What surprised me was that she also seemed to be mortified - regarding my question as a gross affront; a fiendishly devised humiliation.

Needless to say, his shaming is unlikely to sway the hundreds, if not thousands, of sites, services, and blogs that will be shuttering for a day in protest of what many credible authorities (to say nothing of millions of citizens) say is a gross affront to the freedoms that have made the web what it is.

Friday was a gross affront to human decency and the visitation of indignity on those who didn't deserve it.

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Insults to the national flag, including gross affronts or indignities to it, as well as using it in a manner so as to violate the provisions of the Flag Code, are punishable by law with imprisonment up to three years, or a fine, or both.

He wrote: "Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.... Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation".

A gross caricature?

It was a gross injustice.

That is a gross overstatement.

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