offending

How To Use offending In A Sentence

• He took an aesthete's view that some of the writing in the issue was ‘indecent in the sense of offending against delicacy’ but ‘would not deprave or corrupt save in point of literary style’.
• Offending drivers are to be pulled over as part of a pilot scheme and ‘given advice’ rather than booked, on the basis that it is pointless fining people for innocent mistakes.
• That's right, vast swabs of the offending speech are reproduced under the cover of the Parliamentary privilege that had been so abused.
• Misuse of alcohol and drugs are key factors behind offending by veterans and a high proportion of crimes are linked to domestic violence. Times, Sunday Times
• Not since the days when a churl suffered extravagant penalties for offending a Norman lord have we seen such disparities of treatment within our justice system.
• Since there's little danger of hypothermia when the water temperature is 80 degrees, your chief sartorial concern is not offending other boaters.
• Though he is sworn to secrecy, Larry, stricken with guilt over offending a friend, spills the beans.
• We would need to see the context of these memos to know what beefs Roberts might have had with the offending words.
• When the offending device had finally been removed, she didn't notice even then; her mind had been made as pure as the cubic room she was contained in.
• Is there a huge problem with renegade owners unlawfully springing their offending dogs from the doggy jail?