- Look up
offensive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Offensive may
refer to:
Offensive (military), type of
military operation Offensive, the
former name...
- unpleasant. Some
euphemisms are
intended to amuse,
while others use bland,
inoffensive terms for
concepts that the user
wishes to downplay.
Euphemisms may be...
- 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...
-
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...
- was
originally used by
classical scholars as "a bookish, and
therefore inoffensive term for
writing about prostitutes", but its
meaning was
quickly expanded...
- by saying, "Something that
started decades ago and was
applauded and
inoffensive is now
politically incorrect. What can you do?" to
which Marge replies...
-
concluded the
Sentinelese were "a
tribe which slays every stranger,
however inoffensive, on sight,
whether a
forgotten member of itself, of
another Andamanese...
- [however], we must not
forget that
these idyllic village communities,
inoffensive though they may appear, had
always been the
solid foundation of Oriental...
- and to
nominate Frederic R. Coudert, but
Cleveland acquiesced in an
inoffensive choice, that of
Senator Edward Dougl****
White of Louisiana,
whose nomination...
-
semantic drift known as melioration,
wherein former pejoratives become inoffensive and commonplace.
Because of its
increasing usage in the
public forum...
