[f. AFFRONT v. + -ING2.] Insulting to the face; openly offensive.
1724. Watts, Logick, I. iv. § 3 (1813), 344. Some [words] are clean and decent … others are affronting and reproachful.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, xv. (1811), II. 98. Had you not been so rudely affronting to him.
1869. R. Lytton, Orval, 163. The blazon’d boast of his affronting flag.
