affront
/əˈfrənt/ verbe C2En français : défier, jeter le gant, envoyer un cartel, se confronter
- To insult intentionally, especially openly.
- To be an affront to; offend.
- To meet defiantly; to confront. · to affront death
He/she/it affronts · Prétérit affronted · Participe passé affronted · Forme en -ing affronting
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- affront
- He/she/it
- affronts
- Prétérit
- affronted
- Participe passé
- affronted
- Forme en -ing
- affronting
Dans la bibliothèque
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody, and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.
Collins, after assuring them that he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront, seated himself at another table with Mr.
Catherine, weak-spirited, irritable, and completely under Lydia’s guidance, had been always affronted by their advice; and Lydia, self-willed and careless, would scarcely give them a hearing.
Noirtier,” said Madame de Villefort; “besides, they are to come to Paris in about a month, and Valentine, after the affront she has received, need not consider it necessary to continue to bury herself alive by being shut up with M.
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