affrontive
Tending to affront or offend.
Adjective
- Tending to affront or offend.
- Their behaviour to him, when they could not help seeing him, was very cold and disobliging; but as yet not directly affrontive. - 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 4, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […],...
Origin
Etymology tree English affront Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English affrontive From affront + -ive.