Crossword-Solution: AFFRONT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Affront | v. t. | To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. |
| Affront | v. t. | To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter. |
| Affront | v. t. | To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility. |
| Affront | n. | An encounter either friendly or hostile. |
| Affront | n. | Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult. |
| Affront | n. | An offense to one's self-respect; shame. |
We have 200 clues for the answer “AFFRONT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Action causing outrage | 1 answer |
| Deliberate insult | 1 answer |
| Face in defiance. | 1 answer |
| Insulting action | 1 answer |
| Intentional insult. | 1 answer |
| Offend by open disrespect. | 1 answer |
| Offend someone by a direct insult | 1 answer |
| Open insult or act of disrespect | 1 answer |
| Something offensive | 1 answer |
| Act of disrespect | 2 answers |
| Slap in the face | 4 answers |
| vulgarize | 9 answers |
| vulgarise | 11 answers |
| BACKHANDED COMPLIMENT | 13 answers |
| Catcall | 14 answers |
| AGGRESS | 17 answers |
| antagonise | 17 answers |
| Offense | 22 answers |
| Embitter | 28 answers |
| Madden | 29 answers |
| TALK back | 30 answers |
| Menace | 32 answers |
| call down | 33 answers |
| Jeer | 34 answers |
| MAKE irate | 34 answers |
| accost | 35 answers |
| make havoc | 38 answers |
| Mortify | 39 answers |
| Peeve | 39 answers |
| Infuriate | 39 answers |
| Nettle | 41 answers |
| Embarrass | 42 answers |
| Discompose | 43 answers |
| Deride | 43 answers |
| MOVE past | 44 answers |
| Enrage | 44 answers |
| Huff | 45 answers |
| Barb | 46 answers |
| make mad | 46 answers |
| Aspersion | 48 answers |
| Injure | 48 answers |
| asperse | 48 answers |
| Disrespect | 48 answers |
| shamefacedness | 49 answers |
| subservience | 49 answers |
| Intrude (on) | 49 answers |
| rudeness | 49 answers |
| Make Angry | 49 answers |
| call forth | 49 answers |
| Taunt | 50 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with AFFRONT (5)
For hee who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses The tempted with dishonour foul, suppos’d Not incorruptible of Faith, not prooff Against temptation: thou thy self with scorne And anger wouldst resent the offer’d wrong, Though ineffectual found: misdeem not then, If such affront I labour to avert From thee alone, which on us both at once The Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare, Or daring, first on mee th’ assault shall light.
Nor yet, amidst this joy and brightest morn, Was absent, after all his mischief done, 440 The Prince of Darkness; glad would also seem Of this fair change, and to our Saviour came; Yet with no new device (they all were spent), Rather by this his last affront resolved, Desperate of better course, to vent his rage And mad despite to be so oft repelled.
When Terkoz saw Tarzan approaching without his arrows, he continued to belabor the poor woman in a studied effort to affront his hated chieftain.
She was not in a humour, however, to regard it as an affront, and affecting to take no notice of what passed, by instantly talking of something else, she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself, beyond all doubt, that it was exactly the shade of her own.
Hunting otters in submarine forests, as we did in the Island of Crespo, will pass; but going up and down at the bottom of the sea, where one is almost certain to meet sharks, is quite another thing! I know well that in certain countries, particularly in the Andaman Islands, the negroes never hesitate to attack them with a dagger in one hand and a running noose in the other; but I also know that few who affront those creatures ever return alive.
Quotes with AFFRONT (3)
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organ…
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1952–2017).