Offensive
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- Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred
- Some feminists find pornography offensive.
- Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
- The army's offensive capabilities. An offensive weapon.
In language or morals, terms and concepts which are unacceptable to some people, such as swearing and profanity, e.g. sexually explicit material
Offensive may refer to:
- Offensive (military), an attack
- Offensive language
- Fighting words or insulting language, words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace
- Profanity, strongly impolite, rude or offensive language
- Hate speech
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Etymology
Etymology From Middle French offendre, from Latin offendō (“strike, blunder, commit an offense”), from ob- (“against”) + *fendō (“strike”).
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See also
- Repulsive
- Charm offensive
- Sin, an act that violates a known moral rule
- Offence or crime, a violation of penal law
- Religious offense, an offense against religion, see sin
- Juvenile offender
- Defense
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