| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| affront (n., v.), effrontery (n.) |
| The verb affront means “to insult, to offend deliberately”; the noun means “insult” and takes to or, less frequently, of: I couldn’t forgive his affront to [of] his mother. Effrontery is “impudence, boldness, audacity, presumption”: She then had the effrontery to ask a favor. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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