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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151) It is by no means certain that the Tory tax offensive has gained much ground.
152) Provided there's nothing visibly offensive on the cover, it's not illegal to send catalogues like this through the post.
153) I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive.
154) On one occasion he had been trying to copy the way McKelvey took an offensive rebound and turned it into a basket.
155) The mujaheddin had launched a fresh rocket offensive against the city on Feb. 26.
156) These attacks have inflicted widespread and in some cases irreparable damage in preparation for the ground offensive.
157) Racial harassment involves hostile or offensive behaviour towards an individual or group because of their race.
158) The 1969 Tet Offensive is best seen as part of a larger, sustained enemy campaign that began in January 1968.
159) Higher environmental standards have to some extent highlighted the problem of offensive odours.
160) Or, still more tempting, to send an electric shock interactively to senders of the more offensive messages?
161) When they had injuries on the offensive line, they needed constant drills to develop cohesion.
161) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
162) Ernie Zampese is their third offensive coordinator in five years.
163) The appellant had used offensive language to a 12 year old girl who had run home and complained to her father.
164) With this caveat, he endorsed the Fifth Army proposal for resuming the offensive on the Right Bank.
165) Offensive line is the area of greatest concern as the 49ers gird for the second half of the season.
166) The dead had become offensive and the living were suffering fearful agonies.
167) There are many great offensive players in the game right now[sentencedict.com], maybe because the pitching is so awful.
168) A brawler this is, an alley fighter, a hopped-up offensive gone freak.
169) The comedian wasn't funny at all; he was just crude and offensive.
170) Or: Your boss and fellow workers constantly tell offensive jokes and you have been sexually harassed.
171) He created havoc on the offensive boards and did a good job of blocking shots.
172) Harris Barton, the 49ers' offensive right tackle, missed his second straight game because of a groin injury.
173) Chuck Levy, meanwhile, was in for 40 offensive plays and made the most of them.
174) People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
175) She found the other students' insistence that she shower every day offensive.
176) Green Bay has a bunch of 300-pound defensive linemen, and I think they can match up with the Dallas offensive line.
177) Entomology became more fashionable once better killing bottles provided the squeamish with a less offensive method of collecting specimens.
178) Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has warned any offensive ground action would involve more than 100,000 men and lead to heavy casualties.
179) In the last week of February, Etiopia finally launched a major offensive at Badme.
180) Now, with the 49ers at their 18-yard line, offensive coordinator Marc Trestman called the screen pass.
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