- 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...
-
trumpeting "polite" entertainment, a
commitment to
entertainment equally inoffensive to men,
women and children. Acts that
violated this
ethos (e.g., those...
-
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...
- unpleasant. Some
euphemisms are
intended to amuse,
while others use bland,
inoffensive terms for
concepts that the user
wishes to downplay.
Euphemisms may be...
- worse", from
peior "worse". In
historical linguistics, the
process of an
inoffensive word
becoming pejorative is a form of
semantic drift known as pejoration...
- 2018, pp. 11, 279n13.
Kapur 2018, p. 11. Kowalski,
Frank (2014). An
Inoffensive Rearmament: The
Making of the
Postwar ****anese Army.
Naval Institute...
-
received many
friends in the
House because of his fair
leadership and
inoffensive personality. For the past decade, Ford had been
unsuccessfully working...
- and to
nominate Frederic R. Coudert, but
Cleveland acquiesced in an
inoffensive choice, that of
Senator Edward Dougl****
White of Louisiana,
whose nomination...
-
remain skeptical. On Halloween,
Athena and the 118 deal with
various inoffensive calls before responding to a car
crash brought on by a man who car-chased...
