Antonym: inoffensive. Similar words: defensive, extensive, comprehensive, offense, sensitive, offender, defense, massive. Meaning: [ə'fensɪv] n. the action of attacking an enemy. adj. 1. violating or tending to violate or offend against 2. for the purpose of attack rather than defense 3. causing anger or annoyance 4. morally offensive 5. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses 6. of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology 7. causing or able to cause nausea.
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121) He found it deeply offensive to think of Alice-his beautiful Alice - being rejected by anyone.
122) The Park Chung Hee clique will capitulate to this peace offensive.
123) It stank to high heaven of salt-fish and shit, the aforementioned by far the more offensive.
124) The notion of casually mixing fine art and housewares may be offensive to them.
125) Jody keeps Sally in for twenty-three minutes, watching her pick up the offensive plays and bluff her way through the defense.
126) Marriage experts have slammed Laura's ideas as offensive and pandering to male chauvinism.
127) Although she didn't actually say anything offensive, her expression was sulky, insolent, and hostile.
128) The detente coincided with the magnificent spring offensive possiblY the military high point of the national liberation struggle.
129) Thick, yellow, offensive ear discharges with loss of hearing and dry cough.
130) It isn't a solitary clunker that produced a 103-85 loss to the Miami Heat that is offensive.
131) Pittsburgh was really offensive and I added an element to them.
131) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
132) After initial successes, Cunningham's offensive had been outflanked by Rommel and brought to a standstill.
133) It is against the background of this offensive that the judicial decisions of 1896-1901 must seen.
134) As long as unsolicited e-mail was not entirely offensive, I usually found it fairly amusing, even the commercial sort.
135) Voltaire's work is, arguably, offensive but one should err on the side of allowing it to be available.
136) Paul Verhoeven has a track record of movies so offensive they are perversely beguiling.
137) We still held the point where the roads converged at Chancellorsville, but our position promised more for offensive than defensive battle.
138) Remembering his losses in the Red River offensive, he realized that a similar setback would be fatal to the Vietminh cause.
139) But before Adamowski could get his campaign under way, Daley threw him off balance by going on the offensive.
140) His top offensive threats are two temperamental sophomores, and he made a major schematic shift in midseason. Pretty impressive.
141) This rod-shaped bacterium is a not uncommon cause of an offensive vaginal discharge in women.
142) Lantz resigned effective immediately after nine years as head coach. Offensive coordinator Rob Green was named interim coach.
143) Eventually a more effective pump was installed which removed both offensive chemicals and colour.
144) From now on - offensive rather than defensive action is the key note.
145) On March 30, 1972, Hanoi launched its own major offensive across the demilitarized zone.
146) Conventional troop cuts will be accompanied by a reorganization of units in charge of offensive nuclear weapons.
147) Nor is the offence under section 5 expressed to be committed by the distribution of offensive matter, as opposed to its display.
148) The blast appears to have been timed to coincide with a political offensive.
149) The much-maligned offensive line generally played well against a ferocious Chiefs defense.
150) It is leaning towards Gore, but still vulnerable to a Bush offensive.
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