affronting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of affront

   “We hope that he is, and that our misgivings arise solely from the Minister's characteristically affronting approach to a railway matter.”

noun

1. The offering of an affront.

   “the affrontings of his majesty”

adj

1. Offensive, causing an affront.

   “How much more affronting must it be to the Majefty of Heaven, the Great KING, to be thus treated?”

   “There was afterwards one despatch from the Russian Minister to Earl Russell which in former times must have led to instant war, because it was of a very affronting character to the great nation which the noble Earl represented.”

   “The ladies tell me that there is no Adonis, which is very affronting —only old men (alias old women) , and boys like Thomas Thumb, with the legs of a starved spider.”