affronting

Offensive, causing an affront.

Adjective

  1. Offensive, causing an affront.
    • How much more affronting must it be to the Majefty of Heaven, the Great KING, to be thus treated? - 1718, Samuel Keimer, A Brand pluck'd from the Burning, page 108:
    • There was afterwards one despatch from the Russian Minister to Earl Russell which in former times must have led to instant war, because it was of a very affronting character to the great nation which the noble Earl...
    • The ladies tell me that there is no Adonis, which is very affronting —only old men (alias old women) , and boys like Thomas Thumb, with the legs of a starved spider. - 1888, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Alexander...

Forms

more affronting most affronting

Derived

affrontingly affrontingness

Noun

  1. The offering of an affront.
    • the affrontings of his majesty - a. 1631, John Donne, Sermon preached upon the penitential psalms:

Forms

affrontings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of affront
    • We hope that he is, and that our misgivings arise solely from the Minister's characteristically affronting approach to a railway matter. - 1961 May, “Editorial: Mr. M. presents Dr. B. - for a limited season only”, in...