Word: affront
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Even weirder, of course, was their uniform-an affront to starched red coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that Britain's adjutant-general at one point ordered it to adopt a uniform less "objectionable to the natives of South Britain...
...exposition of the terrible damage to maternal health caused by forcing a partially crippled woman to bear a full term pregnancy. The old man, who purported to be the leader of a "moral conservation society," asserted that a change in the law would somehow be an extension of the affront to society posed by the hippies "who feel they have a right to live together...
...Your implication that Minnesotans tolerantly and forgivingly accept Senator McCarthy's nonperformance in office is certainly subject to some extensive qualifications. People who have to call on our representatives for information, counsel and aid are not amused, and it goes beyond the affront of not getting responsive action to a request. What is most resented is that the work is shifted to already overburdened representatives-first Hubert Humphrey and now Senator Mondale. Considering McCarthy's undistinguished and largely negative record in the field of legislation, in comparison with the records of Mondale and Humphrey, we resent having...
...napalm falls, Americans are driven in ever-increasing numbers to acts of petty thievery. Yesterday's assault on the Lampoon Ibis stands as one of the pettiest. The stolen article is an old bird, metallic in nature and of no value to anyone. Its removal is an affront to the pride and intelligence of its keepers, and to law and order as well. The offenders should be treated like the loathsome degenerates they clearly...
...with undergraduates by eating one lunch and one dinner per week in a College dining hall. Moreover, he could seize the initiative for student contact at appropriate times. For example, when SDS challenged him to debate University complicity in the Vietnam War, Pusey apparently looked upon this as an affront to the dignity of his office. Had he instead accepted the challenge as an opportunity for valuable exchange of views, both he and the students might have gained some useful understanding of each other...