- Look up
offensive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Offensive may
refer to:
Offensive (military), type of
military operation Offensive, the
former name...
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Latin Pop
singer Ricardo Arjona's 2006 song "Mojado" uses the word
inoffensively, as he
describes a
migrant s****ing a
better life in
another country...
- 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...
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trumpeting "polite" entertainment, a
commitment to
entertainment equally inoffensive to men,
women and children. Acts that
violated this
ethos (e.g., those...
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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...
- worse", from
peior "worse". In
historical linguistics, the
process of an
inoffensive word
becoming pejorative is a form of
semantic drift known as pejoration...
- unpleasant. Some
euphemisms are
intended to amuse,
while others use bland,
inoffensive terms for
concepts that the user
wishes to downplay.
Euphemisms may be...
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received many
friends in the
House because of his fair
leadership and
inoffensive personality. For the past decade, Ford had been
unsuccessfully working...
- [however], we must not
forget that
these idyllic village communities,
inoffensive though they may appear, had
always been the
solid foundation of Oriental...
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suggest a
contract to
Mallory for a signature.
Mallory could find both an
inoffensively-modified
version of this fair
contract that has the same
signature as...
