France, keen to add Romania and Slovenia to the list, was affronted.
We assume that things will work in the way that we expect them to, and are surprised and affronted when they do not.
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The party now has a big reason to do so quickly: a Sinn Fein walkout from the talks could trigger Assembly elections, in which the DUP fears being punished by affronted Protestant voters.
Euro wonks will be further affronted that the British sought a veto on specific financial regulations, two decades after the unanimity rule was booted out of the single market by none other than Margaret Thatcher.
Affronted Brits might draw some comfort from a recent survey of American public opinion by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, which found that Britain was the second most popular foreign country among Americans, just after Canada.
Abbas, however, was certainly nowhere nearly as directly affronted as the Hamas leaders in Gaza, whom the president unceremoniously slammed for their rocket attacks and for their inattentiveness to the needs of the Palestinian people entrusted into their care.
Scoop Jackson would have been affronted by the dire implications of such behavior for the system of checks-and-balances that are enshrined in the Constitution and that are supposed to limit the scope and potential for abuse of the government it charters.
The quiz-master's conclusion is that the boy is cheating, and he enlists the cops (who are just as incredulous and just as affronted by the boy's audacity) to extract a confession that he'd worn a wire or had had access to the questions.
PNG's founding father was affronted.
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