What is "affrontery"

Usage examples of "affrontery".

For this affrontery the villages have been burned and the ashes scattered, lest the sight of them displease you.

When he got no response from his verbal attempts, actually poking her foot with his toe so that she looked up at him in shock and affrontery before she could stop herself.

The children stared at him, a kind of insane affrontery in their faces, as if they could not believe that he would defy them.

He was drawn into the conversational circle against his will, having stood close enough to Keith to look as if he was with him, and had to suffer the looks of the Commission Officers at his affrontery to poach on their private preserve.

The boldness of his entrance into their holly of holies, his affrontery, the ease with which he had taken their prisoner from them had impressed them, while the fact that Sobito, a witch-doctor, had fled from him in terror had assured them of his supernatural origin.

The expression on his face was indescribable, wandering between amusement and affrontery, with a touch each of anger and exasperation.

I am deeply embarrassed at the affrontery of a girl not yet nineteen pointing her finger at a man nearly three times her age, and her teacher to boot, but at the time it seemed appropriate.

She had been so careful not to make a martyr out of Braeg, and so confident that she could quell the uprisings on the outworlds, that she had allowed his affrontery to go too far.

Tewdrig was on the point of sending the audacious lad away with a stern rebuke for his affrontery, but I interceded.