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"afrentar" in English

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"afrentar" in English
afrentar{transitive verb}
to affront- to insult
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afrentar[afrentando · afrentado] {transitive verb}
afrentar
to affront[affronted · affronted] {v.t.}
Es una afrenta a la dignidad de las personas, mujeres y madres.
This is an affront to the dignity of individuals, women and mothers.
Esta política es una afrenta a la humanidad y, por lo tanto, debe ser rechazada con rotundidad.
This policy is an affront to humanity and must therefore be rejected outright.
Las condiciones de detención están empeorando y constituyen una afrenta a la dignidad humana.
The detention conditions are degrading and an affront to human dignity.
afrentar(also: denigrar, insultar, apostrofar, denostar)
to insult[insulted · insulted] {vb}
«Porque me devora el celo por tu casa, y las afrentas con que te afrentan caen sobre mí» (Sal 69, 10).
“Zeal for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me” (Ps 69:9).
Esto no nos lo creen las ciudadanas y ciudadanos y es también una afrenta directa a nuestra propia inteligencia.
Our fellow citizens will not accept this and indeed it is also an insult to our own intelligence.
Pero sobre todo, tenemos que mantenernos alerta para evitar que los ciudadanos de los países pobres tengan que sufrir, además, esa afrenta.
Above all, though, we must undertake to be vigilant to ensure that the citizens of poor countries do not have to suffer this insult also.

SYNONYMS
Synonyms (Spanish) for "afrentar":
afrentar
agraviar- baldonar- denostar- descalificar- deshonrar- escarnecer- estigmatizar- humillar- infamar- injuriar- manchar- ofender- señalar- ultrajar- vejar
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Por otro lado, sabemos que la UE, después de la cumbre de Tampere, aprobó una recomendación de un grupo de trabajo de alto nivel sobre la manera de afrentar la situación afgana.
On the other hand, we know that, after the Tampere Summit in 1999, the EU approved a recommendation from a high-level working party concerning how we should deal with the Afghan situation.

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