The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SNUB which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2020.
Affront crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SNUB | 26 % | 4 |
| INSULT | 22 % | 6 |
| SLAP | 16 % | 4 |
| SLUR | 10 % | 4 |
| OFFEND | 10 % | 6 |
| OUTRAGE | 10 % | 7 |
| SLIGHT | 4 % | 6 |
| DIS | 2 % | 3 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Affront
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- insult
- insulting
- contempt
- outrage
- slur
- shame
- disgrace
- curse
- humiliation
- provocative
- offense
- defamation
Crossword Answer definitions
SNUB noun- A deliberate affront or slight.
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
- To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- To turn down; to dismiss.
- To check; to reprimand.
- To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
- Conspicuously short.
- Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
- (of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
- To sob with convulsions.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SNUB
- Rebuff
- Leave off the nominations
- Oscar ___ (the Academy's choice not to nominate a critically acclaimed work)
- Turn one's nose up
- Un-invite, maybe
- Slight
- Social insult
- Ignore contemptuously
- Affront
- High-hat
More clues leading to the result INSULT
- Affront
- "Yo Mama" joke line, e.g.
- It may be added to injury
- Rickles riposte
- Dig
- Dis
- Offensive remark
- Slight
- Don Rickles specialty
- Refusal of hospitality, often
More clues leading to the result SLAP
- Duel invitation, perhaps
- High-five sound
- Hockey shot
- Insult
- Pincher's punishment, often
- Rebuff
- Sharp insult
- "Fresh!" follow-up
- Fresh response
- Kind of shot
More clues leading to the result SLUR
- Aspersion
- Pronounce indistinctly
- Disparage
- Calumny
- Bad-mouth
- Cast aspersions on
- Insulting words
- N-bomb, e.g.
- Sound like you've had a few too many
- Speak indistinctly
More clues leading to the result OFFEND
- Cause umbrage
- Put one's nose out of joint
- Incite outrage
- Insult
- Affront
- Cause affront to
- Step on someone's toes, so to speak
- Transgress
- Cause resentment
- Wound
More clues leading to the result OUTRAGE
- Affront
- Disruption (or ... fed-up-and-not-gonna-take-it-anymore feeling)
- Atrocity
- Indignation
- Incense
- Indignity
- Affront.
- Violate.
- Scandalize.
- Act of wanton violence.