- Look up
offensive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Offensive may
refer to:
Offensive (military), type of
military operation Offensive, the
former name...
- niger),
where English took it from. The term can be
viewed as offensive,
inoffensive, or
completely neutral,
largely depending on the
region or
country where...
- worse", from
peior "worse". In
historical linguistics, the
process of an
inoffensive word
becoming pejorative is a form of
semantic drift known as pejoration...
-
qualify for registration, dogs must show
tranquillity in the
presence of
inoffensive strangers,
indifference to gunfire, and
aggressive defence of the owner...
- In the
United States,
particularly in the
Midwest and South, it is an
inoffensive slang term
meaning "small animal". The term is used in the vernacular...
-
trumpeting "polite" entertainment, a
commitment to
entertainment equally inoffensive to men,
women and children. Acts that
violated this
ethos (e.g., those...
- unpleasant. Some
euphemisms are
intended to amuse,
while others use bland,
inoffensive terms for
concepts that the user
wishes to downplay.
Euphemisms may be...
- as large,
dirty pests,
although the
majority of
species are
small and
inoffensive and live in a wide
range of
habitats around the world. ****roaches are...
- his company, the Société Française de
Teintures Inoffensives pour
Cheveux (French
Company of
Inoffensive Hair Dyes), the ****ure L'Oréal. In his production...
-
strangely united in the last of
their successors", "The life of this
inoffensive youth was
spared by the
generous clemency of Odoacer; who
dismissed him...
