affronting
adj.冒犯的,无礼的:对某人的尊严、感情或自尊心造成伤害的行为或言辞。
例句
Never has been a sin affronting the orthodoxy.
离经叛道从来不是罪过。
There's something in Eliot's--the presentation of Eliot's work and indeed in the work itself that is affronting, resistant, impersonal.
艾略特的作品中有一点别的意义,作品展现出来的,本身有点冒犯,具有反抗性和个人性,印刷和,外观也展现了那些特征。
He seemed to take pleasure not only in affronting the sincere and red-hot loyalties of Atlanta but in presenting himself in the worst possible light.
他好像不仅很乐意跟亚特兰大人的诚恳而炽热的忠诚作对,而且高兴让自己以尽可能糟糕的形象出现。