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What (who) is OFFENSIVENESS - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Offend; Inoffensive; Offend (disambiguation); Offensive (disambiguation); Offensiveness; Offensives; Offensiv (disambiguation)
offensive
¦ adjective
1. causing offence.
2. (of a military operation or weapon) involved or used in active attack.
3. chiefly N. Amer. relating to the team in possession of the ball or puck in a game.
¦ noun
1. a military campaign of attack.
2. a forceful campaign.
Phrases
be on the offensive be ready to act aggressively.
Derivatives
offensively adverb
offensiveness noun
Offensive
·adj Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
II. Offensive ·adj Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds.
III. Offensive ·noun The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party;
- opposed to defensive.
IV. Offensive ·adj Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking;
- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons.
offensive
a.
1.
Aggressive, assailant, attacking, invading.
2.
Disgusting, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, loathsome, repulsive.
3.
Disagreeable, unpleasant, unpalatable, displeasing, revolting, shocking, abominable, detestable, hateful, execrable, obnoxious.
4.
Irritating, disagreeable, unpleasant, impertinent, rude, saucy, opprobrious, insolent, insulting, abusive.
Wikipedia
Offensive
Offensive may refer to:
- Offensive, the former name of the Dutch political party Socialist Alternative
- Offensive (military), offensive
- Fighting words or insulting language, words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace
- Pejorative, or slur words
- Profanity, strongly impolite, rude or offensive language
Examples of use of OFFENSIVENESS
1. Researchers typically classify odor offensiveness along four lines÷ unpleasantness, intensity, duration, and frequency.
2. Permission to reprint/republish Descending to the bait, defenders of offensiveness weigh in across the spectrum.
3. Our argument is that they are simply prioritising financial gain over the moral offensiveness of using children to sell sex.
4. But doesn‘t the real blame lie with a Government that encourages such offensiveness in the first place?
5. The Mail makes no defence of boorish customers who cross the line between good–natured banter and offensiveness.