Sentence examples for be a gross affront from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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.

It was a gross injustice.

That is a gross overstatement.

This is a gross simplification.

That's a gross underestimate.

It would be an affront to them; it's an affront to us".