Affrontive


insulting; offensive.
Historical Examples

As to the Scotch, their barbarisms that are to be found even in print, are affrontive to the descendants of Englishmen.
A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Benjamin Waterhouse

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