Synonym: affront, disgust, displease, grieve, horrify, hurt, insult, pain, sicken, wound. Antonym: appease, defend. Similar words: offended, offender, offense, stiffen, offensive, fend, defend, fend off. Meaning: [ə'fend] v. 1. cause to feel resentment or indignation 2. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises 3. strike with disgust or revulsion 4. hurt the feelings of.
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61. Bogus applicants offend ethnic minorities as much as anyone else.
62. Another Tory, David Evans, said parents should be punished if their children offend.
63. He also has to be careful not to offend the leaders of other parties, who jealously guard their independence.
64. If they offend again, lock them up and throw away the key.
65. But the fact is Abdul-Rauf tried very hard not to offend anyone by his refusal to go along with the crowd.
66. Even the mayonnaise has no egg in it, so as not to offend vegan sensibilities.
67. Within a short space of time, Gerry had managed to offend everyone in the group.
68. Mosques, bathhouses, roofs - you could offend some one's susceptibilities by searching any of them.
69. That probably means it will offend the few and rip off the many.
70. Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Jules Renard
71. The risk was that I would offend the equity department, which would then try to have me fired.
72. Because these would offend canons of justice which find acceptance among a large proportion of the population.
73. Even in the right a man can offend past any forgiveness.
74. I think people have overreacted to the advertisement - we didn't intend of offend anyone.
75. We try to observe the local customs so that we don't offend people.
76. The parole board felt that Harris was unlikely to offend again.
77. Poverty generally increases the motivation to offend and diminishes resources available for investigation and crime prevention.
78. He is a sensitive man, and it not difficult to offend his sensibilities.
79. It was newly furnished in a style guaranteed not to offend, a nice compromise of bureaucratic orthodoxy and modern functionalism.
79. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
80. If Montrose openly endorsed Kirkton, and carried his re-election, he might gravely offend some of his own friends.
81. They are consequently highly sensitive to any occurrence that might offend against this principle.
82. All I've done is offend one or two of the wrong people, it's not the end of the world.
83. The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.
84. How shall we word a letter so as not to offend the parents? Head starts scratching himself.
85. The U.S. military has been at pains not to offend its Muslim host.
86. Jenny felt confused by Matt's behavior - had she done something to offend him?
87. However, I do not want to offend my local church organist by asking her to step down.
88. Garbage blowing on the sidewalk would offend them as much as would a dully designed highrise.
89. Because he didn't want to offend his mum and dad, devout Catholics.
90. She desperately wanted to fill in the hollow of longing that pierced Friend - but she was afraid she would offend him.
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