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offensiveness

/uh-fen-siv or, for 4, 5, aw-fen-, of-en-/US // əˈfɛn sɪv or, for 4, 5, ˈɔ fɛn-, ˈɒf ɛn- //UK // (əˈfɛnsɪv) //

冒犯性,攻击性,反感度,违法性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
    • : unpleasant or disagreeable to the sense: an offensive odor.
    • : repugnant to the moral sense, good taste, or the like; insulting: an offensive remark; an offensive joke.
    • : pertaining to offense or attack: the offensive movements of their troops.
    • : characterized by attack; aggressive: offensive warfare.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the position or attitude of aggression or attack: to take the offensive.
    • : an aggressive movement or attack: a carefully planned naval offensive.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ininsolence

Examples

  • It would be offensive to the voters they’re losing, and whom they’ll need in the future.

  • The offense is scoring almost nine points per game less than you would expect based on the down, distance and field position of each offensive play, per data from TruMedia.

  • His rate of swinging at pitches outside the strike zone was very similar to 2019, a much better offensive season for him.

  • Locksley recently called the offensive line “probably the most improved group on our team.”

  • Lions’ Matthew Stafford, multiple 49ers offensive players placed on teams’ covid-19 lists25.

  • Beinart highlights two of them: Gaza and the offensiveness of baby-counting.

  • In his beyond-the-pale derision and offensiveness, he turned it into a night that could never have been an Oscar ceremony.

  • This year was no different, and even threatened to smash the record for apparent offensiveness.

  • Beyond the offensiveness, Terry laments the muddled messaging on such an important topic.

  • It cannot be said that the offensiveness of the act of disobedience is tempered by any very conciliatory tone in the words used.

  • He tried in these words to be slightly offensive; the offensiveness, however, went wide of the mark, and he was sorry.

  • There was almost always a certain sleek offensiveness about Charles Kingsley when he sat down to write.

  • But not even Father Healy could keep the tale from growing in magnitude and increased offensiveness.

  • All their offensiveness notwithstanding, they have a stately flight.