Affront

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Ian McEwan

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

William F. Buckley

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Carlos Castaneda