This again was unacceptable to the British, who would be unable to compete on such a level playing field, and was seen by them as a deliberate affront.

To have it invaded by smelly waste seemed a deliberate affront of the mocking Sewage God.

"I've come to talk with my niece about Lowan's estate," he said evenly, taking care to maintain his dignity in the face of Dayme's deliberate affront.

They interpreted the counter-proposal as a deliberate affront.

Dressed in Respighi's colorful orchestral clothes, the Bach came across as a rather loud and deliberate affront to the early-music-authentic-instruments movement.

Spring in Leningrad might well have been designed by the city fathers as a deliberate affront to the city's centuries-old rival, Moscow.

The series of deliberate affronts?

It was a deliberate affront to the African-Americans, who see it as a sign of oppression and hate.

Not to drink with a companion, even if one was not thirsty, was a deliberate affront.

But for the Christian hierarchy here, any mosque at the Annunciation site would be a deliberate affront.