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Affront :: Affront (n.) Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult..

Offend :: Offend (v. t.) To displease; to make angry; to affront.

Affrontingly :: Affrontingly (adv.) In an affronting manner.

Offence :: Offence (n.) The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury..

Affronte :: Affronte (a.) Face to face, or front to front; facing..

Insulting :: Insulting (a.) Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc..

Affronter :: Affronter (n.) One who affronts, or insults to the face..

Affrontive :: Affrontive (a.) Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive.

Affront :: Affront (v. t.) To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter..

Duel :: Duel (n.) A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other..

Affrontee :: Affrontee (n.) One who receives an affront.

Feud :: Feud (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race..

Waspish :: Waspish (a.) Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.

Affrontedly :: Affrontedly (adv.) Shamelessly.

Overlead :: Overlead (v. t.) To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity.

Take :: Take (v. t.) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man..

Affrontiveness :: Affrontiveness (n.) The quality that gives an affront or offense.

Resentingly :: Resentingly (adv.) With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment.

Resent :: Resent (v. t.) In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at..

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