What's the difference between affronted and affronter?

Affronted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Affront

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
  • (2) Co-operatives should not be afraid to champion radical causes, or engage with controversial issues, but this must not involve affronting customers, or turning our backs on good people of different political persuasions.
  • (3) "Hiding behind an abusive anti-terrorism law to prosecute bloggers and journalists for doing their jobs is an affront to the Ethiopian constitution," she said.
  • (4) This case, the so-called AB and CD trial, where the Home Office and the Foreign Office wanted two anonymous defendants to be tried in secret , is an unprecedented affront to every concept of British justice as it has evolved over a thousand years.
  • (5) Recipes for " tomato burgers " (bestowing this fruit sandwich with the holy title of "burger" is an affront to cows everywhere), help on undergoing a " friendship divorce ", extortionate travel guides … Goop covers a lot of ground.
  • (6) Affronted explants of articular cartilage and synovial tissue were cultivated in AS plus C' for 10 days (primary cultures).
  • (7) At the time, Ben Pynt of the advocacy group Humanitarian Research Partners said he was “affronted by this allegation” because he had spent the past week telling people not to self-harm.
  • (8) But not now, and not to events that have the appearance at least of being an affront to the relationship between policing and the public.
  • (9) Bernie Evans Liverpool • The affront to democracy of imposing a 40% threshold of all employees having to vote for public sector industrial action in the trade union bill can be evidenced when such a threshold was included in the Scotland Act 1978.
  • (10) The weather had Shakespearean timing but this was a tempest not just for the police, whose militarised response affronted worldwide opinion, or their political masters, but for local and national black leaders.
  • (11) The countless appeals and re-appeals lodged by criminals attempting to cheat the system cost us all money and are an affront to British justice.
  • (12) This affront to convention was not born of a desire to shock; it was part of a strategy of undermining the categories - including the distinction between the serious and the non-serious - that had long dominated philosophical language.
  • (13) 'Erdem Gunduz’s protest was both an affront and a question for the authorities: beat him?
  • (14) Suárez played as through affronted by the suggestion he might have fitness issues, tormenting England’s defence on a night that finished as a personal ordeal for Steven Gerrard.
  • (15) To have done so with such high-handed contempt is an affront to parliament and a symptom of unchecked arrogance that leads inevitably to bad government.
  • (16) To fail to understand this is to risk an affront to a large stabilising and normally acquiescent section of this country, which will sow completely unnecessary seeds of dissent."
  • (17) Writing in the Observer , the 82-year-old retired Anglican archbishop, revered as the "moral conscience" of South Africa, says that laws that prevent people being helped to end their lives are an affront to those affected and their families.
  • (18) Greste framed his predicament as a straightforward affront to press freedom.
  • (19) That's what they were doing when an impassive, shaven-headed Lemtongthai stood in the dock to receive the strictest sentence ever imposed in South Africa for wildlife crime: Framing the rhino as a symbol of Africa and poaching as an affront to African pride, Judge Prince Manyathi sentenced him to 40 years.
  • (20) His ferocious attack on Lord Goddard, the vindictive Lord Chief Justice, a few days after his death in 1958 affronted many people's sense of good taste.

Affronter


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
  • (2) Co-operatives should not be afraid to champion radical causes, or engage with controversial issues, but this must not involve affronting customers, or turning our backs on good people of different political persuasions.
  • (3) "Hiding behind an abusive anti-terrorism law to prosecute bloggers and journalists for doing their jobs is an affront to the Ethiopian constitution," she said.
  • (4) This case, the so-called AB and CD trial, where the Home Office and the Foreign Office wanted two anonymous defendants to be tried in secret , is an unprecedented affront to every concept of British justice as it has evolved over a thousand years.
  • (5) Recipes for " tomato burgers " (bestowing this fruit sandwich with the holy title of "burger" is an affront to cows everywhere), help on undergoing a " friendship divorce ", extortionate travel guides … Goop covers a lot of ground.
  • (6) Affronted explants of articular cartilage and synovial tissue were cultivated in AS plus C' for 10 days (primary cultures).
  • (7) At the time, Ben Pynt of the advocacy group Humanitarian Research Partners said he was “affronted by this allegation” because he had spent the past week telling people not to self-harm.
  • (8) But not now, and not to events that have the appearance at least of being an affront to the relationship between policing and the public.
  • (9) Bernie Evans Liverpool • The affront to democracy of imposing a 40% threshold of all employees having to vote for public sector industrial action in the trade union bill can be evidenced when such a threshold was included in the Scotland Act 1978.
  • (10) The weather had Shakespearean timing but this was a tempest not just for the police, whose militarised response affronted worldwide opinion, or their political masters, but for local and national black leaders.
  • (11) The countless appeals and re-appeals lodged by criminals attempting to cheat the system cost us all money and are an affront to British justice.
  • (12) This affront to convention was not born of a desire to shock; it was part of a strategy of undermining the categories - including the distinction between the serious and the non-serious - that had long dominated philosophical language.
  • (13) 'Erdem Gunduz’s protest was both an affront and a question for the authorities: beat him?
  • (14) Suárez played as through affronted by the suggestion he might have fitness issues, tormenting England’s defence on a night that finished as a personal ordeal for Steven Gerrard.
  • (15) To have done so with such high-handed contempt is an affront to parliament and a symptom of unchecked arrogance that leads inevitably to bad government.
  • (16) To fail to understand this is to risk an affront to a large stabilising and normally acquiescent section of this country, which will sow completely unnecessary seeds of dissent."
  • (17) Writing in the Observer , the 82-year-old retired Anglican archbishop, revered as the "moral conscience" of South Africa, says that laws that prevent people being helped to end their lives are an affront to those affected and their families.
  • (18) Greste framed his predicament as a straightforward affront to press freedom.
  • (19) That's what they were doing when an impassive, shaven-headed Lemtongthai stood in the dock to receive the strictest sentence ever imposed in South Africa for wildlife crime: Framing the rhino as a symbol of Africa and poaching as an affront to African pride, Judge Prince Manyathi sentenced him to 40 years.
  • (20) His ferocious attack on Lord Goddard, the vindictive Lord Chief Justice, a few days after his death in 1958 affronted many people's sense of good taste.

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