affronts
Deliberate open disrespects
Affronts are actions or remarks that insult or offend someone's dignity: She catalogued the affronts she had suffered.
An affront is typically public or deliberate, a slight that demands acknowledgment.
To affront someone is to insult them openly: His casual dismissal affronted her.
The word carries a formal or literary tone.
Humiliating or degrading treatment
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
- abominationLoathsome, detestable thing
- violationBreaking of rules
desecration · offense · transgression · breach · sacrilege · profanation · degradation · humiliation
Insulting group label
- tauntInsulting provocation
- slanderSpoken false defamation
- disparagementCriticism meant to diminish
- mockeryScornful ridicule or travesty
jeer · put-down · ridicule · jibe · gibe · sarcasm · barb · epithet
Diminishes someone's worth
- condescendsBehaves with superiority
- patronizesTalks down to others
- snubsIntentional social rejections
- spurnsRejects with disdain
disdains · derides · mocks · disparages · slights · demeans · devalues · discredits
indignity
Humiliating or degrading treatment
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
- abominationLoathsome, detestable thing
violation · desecration · offense · transgression · breach · sacrilege · profanation · degradation · humiliation · travesty
slur
Insulting group label
- tauntInsulting provocation
- slanderSpoken false defamation
- disparagementCriticism meant to diminish
mockery · jeer · put-down · ridicule · jibe · gibe · sarcasm · barb · epithet · invective
belittles
Diminishes someone's worth
- condescendsBehaves with superiority
- patronizesTalks down to others
- snubsIntentional social rejections
spurns · disdains · derides · mocks · disparages · slights · demeans · devalues · discredits · disregards
- social frictioninsults, barbs, slights, jibes, snubs
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
- mockerymockery, ridiculing, jeers, jeering, jibes
affrontsreconciles
Resolves differences between parties
appeases · placates · conciliates · mollifies · aids