Word: affrontive
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...beseech you: no longer affront the eyes of respectable citizens and readers by wantonly flouting the laws of this Commonwealth and the most elementary tenets of morality revered by even those unfortunate heathens as yet shrouded in a night of ignorance unenlightened by our self-sacrificing missionaries and civil servants...
Last December The Miracle was put on by Manhattan's Paris Theater as one of three shorts under the overall title, Ways of Love (TIME, Dec. 18). Cardinal Archbishop Spellman denounced it as not only a "vile and harmful picture," but also "a despicable affront to every Christian . . . a mockery of our faith." He demanded that the license for The Miracle's showing be revoked by the New York State board of regents. If the board did not have the necessary power, he implied that U.S. Roman Catholics would go all out to change the censorship laws. Promptly...
...most comfort-loving creature who had ever walked the earth- and he much preferred riding to walking. As well as comfort, he loved and expected order; he yearned, like other men, for a predictable world, and the fantastic fog and gamble of war struck him as a terrifying affront...
Ogden Nash, whose books have sold more than 1,000,000 copies, is probably the only writer of doggerel who has made a good thing, as well as a career, of giving calculated affront to poetry. The difference between Nash and his imitators is that somewhere in the cunningly dislocated gears of his lines he imprisons a patented point of view. It was observable in one of his earliest verses (sold to The New Yorker, in 1930), which began...
Screams of "Nadra!" The Moslems of Singapore (Malays, Pakistanis, Indonesians) had followed the case with mounting religious and racial excitement. Cried Schoolmaster Mansur's enraged kinfolk: "This is a fight between European and Asian!" In the mosques the mullahs spoke of an affront to Islam. Last week the Moslem anger erupted in the most vicious rioting in Singapore memory...