Word: affrontive
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Sullivan said he told the union that he "found their actions reprehensible. I told them it was an affront to the taxpayers of the city that they attempted to disrupt the 350th celebration, an event which would have been irretrievable if they had succeeded," he said...
...estate bore the cost of 96 pairs of kid gloves and 50 suits of mourning made expressly for the funeral. And during the Revolutionary War, a Tory German matron threw a birthday part in honor of George III. Cantabrigians could hardly keep their temper at that affront, so they surrounded the house in "silent, non-violent protest...
...their do-gooding, they did not pay Deadwood's 1% sales tax. Thomas Blair, an anesthetist who helped form a committee to support the anti-whorehouse drive, quotes reports that some of the houses made at least $5,000 a week. Their winked-at illegality was an affront to law-abiding citizens, he says, adding: "I'm not going to legislate my morality on someone else, but I don't want anyone legislating their immorality...
...Rokuro Tomibe, the camp commander and an extraordinarily decent man, dressed down his staff for not being courteous enough to prisoners. In turn, Tomibe sulked because some Americans used the term Jap. A few inmates tried to convince him that it was an innocent abbreviation, but he recognized the affront...
...BOSTON high school principal said last week of the state's new school prayer law, "No one has given it much thought." That's self-evident about everything concerning the new law, from its obvious affront to constitutional principles to the ill-defined details of its implementation...