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What (who) is Offend - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Offend; Inoffensive; Offend (disambiguation); Offensive (disambiguation); Offensiveness; Offensives; Offensiv (disambiguation)
offend
(offends, offending, offended)
1.
If you offend someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.
He apologizes for his comments and says he had no intention of offending the community...
The survey found almost 90 percent of people were offended by strong swearwords...
Television censors are cutting out scenes which they claim may offend.
VERB: V n, V n, V
• offended
She is terribly offended, angered and hurt by this.
ADJ: v-link ADJ
2.
To offend against a law, rule, or principle means to break it. (FORMAL)
This bill offends against good sense and against justice...
In showing contempt for the heavyweight championship Douglas offended a stern code.
VERB: V against n, V n
3.
If someone offends, they commit a crime. (FORMAL)
In Western countries girls are far less likely to offend than boys.
VERB: no cont, V
offend
I. v. a.
1.
Affront, displease, vex, chafe, annoy, irritate, provoke, nettle, mortify, fret, gall, give offence to, make angry.
2.
Shock, wound, pain, annoy, molest.
II. v. n.
1.
Give offence.
2.
Transgress, sin, do wrong, commit offence, stumble, err, fall.
3.
Take offence, be scandalized.
offend
¦ verb
1. cause to feel hurt or resentful.
2. be displeasing to.
3. commit an illegal act.
break a commonly accepted rule or principle.
Derivatives
offended adjective
offendedly adverb
offender noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. offendre, from L. offendere 'strike against'.
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 Offend
1. They didn‘t want to offend AIPAC, but they didn‘t want to offend their constituents either.
2. But that leads to an important distinction: The freedom to offend brings with it a responsibility not to offend gratuitously.
3. Karzais reluctance to offend Musharraf is understandable.
4. If the masterpieces of Busby, Wilds and Burton do not presume to offend his work, why should he presume to offend theirs?
5. Wright‘s words "offend me, they rightly offend all Americans and they should be denounced". But like Hillary herself, Jeremiah Wright will return to haunt Obama later this year.