Charles took great personal affront to these actions, and declared Hotham a traitor.

And this is to give you fortitude: Prudie's close doctor friend tells her that good doctors understand these things and do not take affront.

They still take affront at being expelled fromIreland , after all their centuries of rule.

Taking affront would not serve her own purposes.

She sat without taking affront at his curtness, the bridge bustling with crew and commotion.

The daughter of a well-to-do squire, she took affront at being treated so shabbily.

She'd been in the system too long to take affront.

What if she took affront at my assumption that my boy could come there?

He was trying to be friendly and conversational, but Redington seemed to take affront.

It had never occurred to me that she might be taking affront at my personal habits.