affrontery
English
Etymology
affront + -ery
Noun
affrontery (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of effrontery
- 1868, Stephen Meany, Speeches from the Dock, Part I:
- With an affrontery that did not falter, and knew not how to blush, he detailed his own participation in the acts for which he was prosecuting me as a participator.
- 1909, John R. Musick,, Sustained honor:
- This Englishman should neither out-do him in generosity nor affrontery.
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- An affront
- 1996 January 12, Tom Frank, “Capital Lies”, in Chicago Reader:
- Skyboxes are a grotesque affrontery to authentic fandom […] .
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