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offensive

• (s) violating or tending to violate or offend against
  • violative of the principles of liberty
  • considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity
  violative,
• (a) for the purpose of attack rather than defense
  • offensive weapons
• (a) causing anger or annoyance
  • offensive remarks
• (a) morally offensive
  • an unsavory reputation
  • an unsavory scandal
  unsavory, unsavoury,
• (a) unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
  • offensive odors
• (a) substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
  • "nigger" is a dysphemistic term for "African-American"
  dysphemistic,
• (s) causing or able to cause nausea
  • a nauseating smell
  • nauseous offal
  • a sickening stench
  loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile,

Nouns

• (n) the action of attacking an enemy offence, offense,

Synonyms

violative offence offense unsavory unsavoury dysphemistic loathsome nauseating nauseous noisome queasy sickening vile

Antonyms

defensive inoffensive unoffending savory savoury euphemistic

See also

aggressive hostile disrespectful harmful evil hateful unpalatable unpleasant

Words of close approximity