Why this word is great
AFFRONTERY — [Noun] An act or instance of open disrespect or insult; the delivered strike of an affront. From affront (from Old French afronter, "to slap in the face, insult," based on Late Latin affrontare, "to strike against") + the noun-forming suffix -ery, denoting the practice or instance of such a blow. Unlike "effrontery," which implies shameless, brazen gall, or "insolence," which denotes a contemptuous attitude, affrontery is the specific, crystallized insult itself. It is the unreturned salute, the deliberate mispronunciation by one who knows better, the impeccably worded letter conveying pure contempt—each a small, sharp monument to calibrated disdain, a clean fracture in the social glaze.