slap in the face

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "slap in the face":
      affront, aspersion, atrocity, blow, box, brickbat, buffet,
      casus belli, contempt, contumely, cuff, cut, despite, dump,
      enormity, flat refusal, flout, flouting, gibe, humiliation,
      indignity, injury, insult, jeer, jeering, mock, mockery, offense,
      outrage, point-blank refusal, provocation, put-down, raw nerve,
      rebuff, red rag, repulse, scoff, scurrility, short shrift, slap,
      smack, sore point, sore spot, summary negative, taunt, tender spot,
      token punishment, uncomplimentary remark, whack, whomp