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be affronted
verb
Past of affront
Exact(22)
He would be affronted at the suggestion of manufactured incentive.
Though ungenerous and vain, he could rarely resist an excuse to be affronted.
But if you prefer not to, why would anyone be affronted?
Rather than be affronted by their subversive jump cuts, Lean was enamoured, and embraced the French style.
A new ad from Gov. Rick Perry, to use the latest example, will test anyone who thinks they can no longer be affronted by a political hustle.
Mr. Lehrman's Jewish vote in 1982 was "not large," and it came mainly from religious Jews who would be affronted, he wrote, "by what they must deem apostasy".
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Briefly, I was affronted.
China, though, was affronted.
He was affronted.
Semantics here is affronted by sounds.
Tom was affronted by the cold of the Southampton docks.
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