"terrible affront" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone deliberately acts or speaks in a way that insults or disrespects another person or group. For example, "The president's racist comment was a terrible affront to his constituents."
That was a terrible affront, Mr. Saracco said, particularly given the doctor's "controlling nature".
Strawberry viewed this as an act of disloyalty, a terrible affront -- he even, incredibly, considered it a factor that led him to heavier drinking.
You could view that either as a terrible affront to the assembled acting talent or a pragmatic decision based on the fact that, at this moment in time, Delevingne is more famous than every one of them.
"My religious attitudes are very open indeed, but I do feel that for human beings to make a God in our own image is a terrible affront, because we're so limited in our understanding".
Clapper called Trump's comparison of U.S. intelligence agencies to the Nazis "a terrible, insulting affront" that was "completely inappropriate and over-the-top".
This is a fresh affront, terrible because symbolic, to a people scapegoated once more by a Europe that sacrificed it 20 years ago and seems intent on repeating the offense.
'How could you take these loving photographs that your father took of you and put them together to make him look so terrible?' Men see it as an affront to their manhood or to the male race or something.
Government senators worked themselves up talking about how this is an abuse of parliamentary processes, a clear breach of conventions, an affront to comity, and a terrible precedent.
Horses once abounded in New York, with a hundred and twenty thousand of them still in residence in 1908, when a reporter called them "an economic burden, an affront to cleanliness, and a terrible tax upon human life".
By Roger Angell Horses once abounded in New York, with a hundred and twenty thousand of them still in residence in 1908, when a reporter called them "an economic burden, an affront to cleanliness, and a terrible tax upon human life".
They all had terrible drinking and drug problems, the result I'm sure from the constant personal affronts thrown at them.
