How To Use Offensive In A Sentence

He claimed that we'd all be a lot safer if researchers would keep details about vulnerabilities to themselves, and stop arming hackers with offensive tools.
One thing that could be a bit off-putting is that he uses a great deal of harsh language and blatancy, which can often be offensive.
But that is much more easily done if Cassell can reassume his role as the offensive ignition.
Offensive junk mail, in particular that of an adult nature has become increasingly an issue to all of us onliners and site owners alike.
He is a solid on the ball defender, which makes up for his unorthodox offensive game.

Just last year, pinkos raised a stink over the NCERT's deleting of certain offensive and unauthenticated assertions from history books.
To counter the offensive the British authorities began to recruit a special force for deployment in Ireland.
The first is dysphemism, the deliberate use of an offensive word to indicate disapproval. Times, Sunday Times
Other reporting from the field indicates the use of a combined-arms offensive - employing ground maneuver forces, artillery and aircraft - to effectuate the assault on Samarra.
A series of offensives in early 1918 achieved initial success but ultimately failed to break the Allied line, and by summer, with the Americans coming in droves, the tide of the war had turned irreversibly against the Central Powers. How Wars end
I'd rather have a sliver of prosciutto or a wheel of spicy sausage than neutral, inoffensive chicken any day.
Despite the lack of extras, the movie is nice-looking, inoffensive fun, and a welcome addition to any DVD library.
During both the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War, the B - 52's internal stowage of eighty-four 500-pound bombs made it a formidable offensive weapon.
With this caveat, he endorsed the Fifth Army proposal for resuming the offensive on the Right Bank.
He concocts a pilot proposal so offensive, so bound to misfire with test audiences, it's sure to get him canned.
They lead the NFL in yards per carry behind a strong offensive line and a terrific fullback in Fred Reasley.
People should complain when they consider an advert offensive.
It can only prey on offensive mistakes or inattention.
The shirts that I am offended by are usually not the type that would be offensive to a nonhunter, but because of crude or sexual humor. Sharp-Dressed Man?
I need them to know that a Florida cracker is not something you eat, and that it may or may not be offensive to some readers. Publishing
Only one phaser is inoperative, which means, offensively, the ship is almost totally effective, but defensively its lack of forward shielding makes the vessel incredibly vulnerable.
Speaking for the Midgets Rights Group of America (MRGA), I would like to inform you the term midget is quite offensive. It's Christmas On Hoth
Use the term advisedly, as some find it an offensive allusion to the disabled. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
Docile and inoffensive by nature, the anteater's principal enemies are the puma and the jaguar.
Critics called the plot insensitive and offensive, raising questions about why this book was published in the first place. Christianity Today
Caution: this article contains strong language and may be offensive to some readers.
"It was offensive to some people, " founder Richard Yoo says.
Heavy fighting has been going on after the guerrillas had launched their offensive.
However, the being a little slow, a little ineffectual, is perhaps the least offensive fault she could have; and/some/fault, being human, she New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
After all, a graffitist can scrawl an offensive message in seconds.
Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
You have two defensive tricks, but a bare hand offensively. Times, Sunday Times
So I know there's been threads regarding creepy men and I can see why a guy might feel insulted or take the term creepy offensively. Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
The mujaheddin had launched a fresh rocket offensive against the city on Feb. 26.
Kansas City's offensive line, nearing a record for most consecutive starts as a group, destroyed Minnesota's front seven during two days of scrimmages in August.
Edwards reframes the question right away, goes on the offensive, and talks about people.
He is fondly remembered by his neighbours and friends as a kind, helpful and inoffensive man.
Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their relief work, offering to have a carriage take me around. Roosevelt comes—Mulberry Street’s Golden Age
Knives of any sort are classed as offensive weapons.
All the exquisite, surrounding obscurity was animated by that music, which continued in the distance, in the mystery of the leaves and of the stones, in the depths of all the small, black holes of rocks or walls; it seemed like chivies in miniature, or rather, a sort of frail concert somewhat mocking -- oh! not very mocking, and without any maliciousness -- led timidly by inoffensive gnomes. Ramuntcho
The soldiers were decoyed to a border region while the Viet Cong mounted a major offensive in the urban areas.
This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
The general marshalled his forces for a major offensive.
The offensive has provoked an al-Qaida-linked self-proclaimed commander of the Pakistani Taliban to suspend peace talks with the government.
Whatever it is, I find it highly offensive.
The air campaign proved insufficient to defeat a defending army without a major ground offensive.
Those who find such sums morally offensive had better fasten their belts. Times, Sunday Times
His lack of mobility and limited lateral movement were major detriments for the Jets' offense in 2003, when offensive coordinator Paul Hackett took repeated and unwarranted hits for his play design.
If you are not involved in offensive situations then protect. Times, Sunday Times
He has received more opportunities this season and is back scoring tries but still, King has gone for his perceived failure to find that offensive spark. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe toffs aren't offensive as long as they're scruffy?
One point that the AL makes that has been echoed through other blogs and listservs is that the term 'guybrarian' offensive: "Apparently the label librarian is actually a feminine noun, instead of librarianship just being a feminized profession. Nicole Scherer: Librarians Rarely Make the News
Mr. Reynolds 'opinions are in stark contrast to the core values of the Champaign County Republican Party and are personally offensive to me," party Chairman Jason Barickman told the News-Gazette. Al Reynolds, Tea Party Candidate For Illinois Senate, Says Black Men Prefer Drug Dealing To Education
Harris Barton, the 49ers' offensive right tackle, missed his second straight game because of a groin injury.
Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
Seeing then to the offensiveness of man's nature one to another, there is added a right of every man to every thing, whereby one man invadeth with right, and another with right resisteth; and men live thereby in perpetual diffidence, and study how to preoccupate each other; the estate of men in this natural liberty is the estate of war. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
Whether offensive or defensive players are far stronger in single combat.
At the same time it launched an ideological offensive launched to justify this approach to solving the crisis.
In the ensuing counteroffensive, four soldiers were killed and four mutineers were beaten to death after being captured.
It doesn't contain anything terribly offensive, though the premiere does mention the existence of sex between alligators and use the word "horny. Wired Top Stories
But New England's offensive line hasn't blinked much.
The programme contains language which some viewers may find offensive.
Stewart has become a real technician as an offensive guard.
From the other side, he doesn't have sparkling offensive statistics and his throws don't have great zip.
They launched the land offensive in the middle of the night.
His mode of doing business is offensive to me.
For most of his career, Iverson has been quintessential, high - scoring offensive showman.
It's jarring and offensive and leaves one with nothing but repulsive images that linger on afterwards.
Those who find such sums morally offensive had better fasten their belts. Times, Sunday Times
You always want to work with footwork and his footwork is pretty good right now, Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow said. USATODAY.com - Draft's top QBs land on their feet
We encourage people to report content they find offensive. Times, Sunday Times
Broad, rude, crude and offensive were just a few of the criticisms levelled at this scatological sitcom, but the show had the perfect response to such highbrow jibes: ratings.
It's offensive to pay for a government that rules at our concent and then be told that we're not mature enough, smart enough, whatever to see the product of those we elect. Exclusive Interview with David Gewirtz, Author of Where Have All The Emails Gone?
The Park Chung Hee clique will capitulate to this peace offensive.
Imagine the chagrin of a young team that has spent several practices learning a conventional offensive play only to meet this pattern.
The final offensive was launched on January 10.
Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Latin American, especially a Mexican.
That would have been comical if it hadn't been so downright offensive.
Are they on some kind of charm offensive? Times, Sunday Times
The tanks spearheaded the offensive.
One such hide hung from the opposite wall, an offensive smell permeating it.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It simply exists in an inoffensive and unexciting realm of commonplaceness that makes it incapable of standing out among the pack of infinitely better racers available for any of its chosen platforms.
For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious.
The Treasurer is right: the remark must be withdrawn if it is unparliamentary and offensive.
Third base once was a position flush with players with outsize offensive numbers.
It uses context-sensitive filtering technology to determine whether a message is offensive and prompts people to reconsider their actions. Times, Sunday Times
There were those who found the joke offensive, but Johnson insisted it was just a bit of harmless fun.
Could you qualify his behavior as offensive?
Credit goes to a much-maligned offensive line that had struggled at times. Cardinals, Kurt Warner outlast Packers in 51-45 OT thriller
This man, taciturn, clearminded, laborious, inoffensive, zealous for no government and useful to every government, had gradually become an almost indispensable part of the machinery of the state. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
Furthermore, the most difficult offensive maneuver to defend is the screen. Motion Out | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
However, your pun, besides having little relation to Carlsbad's piece, was both tasteless and offensive.
But true or not, it nowadays seems blimpish and offensive to many people. The Times Literary Supplement
Critics called the plot insensitive and offensive, raising questions about why this book was published in the first place. Christianity Today
A breastfed baby's stools should be frequent, greenish, inoffensively fragrant, loose, and unformed.
But no cabinet level decision to abandon offensive biological warfare was ever taken.
Andy Gray, the face of Sky Sports' soccer coverage for the past 20 years, was dismissed by the broadcaster after "new evidence of unacceptable and offensive behavior" that took place off-air last month. Sky Sports Soccer Commentator Fired Over Sexist Comments
And to be clear, the “good fight” is, instead of accusing flag wavers of being neo-Confederate Klan sympathizers, to convince people of good will that embracing offensive and divisive symbols is counter-productive and hurtful. Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery
(voice-over): Not lost here is that Barack Obama was the first campaign to go on the offensive, sharpening his rhetoric, what they call contrasting himself with Senator Clinton, before she started fighting back. CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007
Perry has called the name "offensive" and said his father painted over the word shortly after leasing the land. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Please observe that your word “applied” is categorically different from “initiat[ed]”, and of conceptual necessity includes both offensive and defensive “appli[cations]”. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Ayn Rand First:(?):
It was a common term considered non-offensive at thetime. The Volokh Conspiracy » Laches Proves To Be the Most Valuable Player:
On a similar note, since offensive style differs much from team to team, certain talented players just cannot fit well in certain schemes, which is something also unique to football, making it harder to judge talent. Matthew Yglesias » The Unpredictability of Quarterbacks
It seems that being merely nice and inoffensive gets you nowhere on the telly.
Being offensive for its own sake is no longer outrageous, not after The Boys, which has the advantage of coming out with a similar look, format, and publisher to what it claims to be satirizing. Superf*ckers » Comics Worth Reading
The 1969 Tet Offensive is best seen as part of a larger, sustained enemy campaign that began in January 1968.
Obviously we have to be balanced but the philosophy is to play offensive football. The Sun
On a play from scrimmage, if an offensive player fumbles anywhere on the field during fourth down, only the fumbling player is permitted to recover and/or advance the ball.
Minority shareholders in the beermaker are gearing up for a court battle in their continued em>offensive against the majority owner.
It was an offensive of little military importance but one which clearly underlined the socio-economic motives of the Nationalist war effort. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
The Badgers didn't turn over the ball (8.8 miscues per game), didn't allow many baskets easy or otherwise (56.9 points per game) and didn't allow many teams to crash the offensive glass (they corraled 73 percent of the available rebounds on the defensive boards). Wisconsin - Team Notes
As communications technology evolves, so will the technology that would allow parents to block obscene or offensive information.
Anything offensive will be edited out at a later stage.
But for a supposed servant of the people to use such a metaphor to refer to a bill that affects us all in such important ways is outrageously and offensively paternalistic or should I say “maternalistic?” and flies in the face of what the relationship between the citizens and Congress in this country is meant to be. HCR: Pelosi tells the simple-minded American people not to worry our pretty little heads about it
He launched what was called a charm offensive against MPs who might not support the Government.
The ground for this popular interpretation is a constitutional device which to an Englishman, if it be not offensive to say so, can only recall the well-known definition of a metaphysician as "a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat, _which is not there_. William of Germany
Racial harassment involves hostile or offensive behaviour towards an individual or group because of their race.
It is against the background of this offensive that the judicial decisions of 1896-1901 must seen.
Reasons put forth include his advancing age, the cumulative effect of thousands of hits and the decline of his offensive line.
He was in further trouble last month for referring to Indians by the highly offensive term "coolies. Exit Julius
Anne and Jane cringed by the doorway as they watched a frazzled looking, bewigged physician chase Katherine around the chamber with the offensive bowl and sharp instrument.
Other than Amare Stoudemire's roll to 37 points , the Suns never seemed to click offensively.
Fallujah, an all-out offensive; Telafar, a dangerous but more contained large-scale cordoned insurge. CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2005
They come up to gallery requirements by their "pleasantness" or the inoffensiveness of their style. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
Thus the dreadful smogs of pre-1952 have been eliminated and the emission of noxious and offensive gases limited.
For a certain portion of the passengers had the unmistakable excursion air: the half-jocular manner towards each other, the local facetiousness which is so offensive to uninterested fellow-travelers, that male obsequiousness about ladies 'shawls and reticules, the clumsy pretense of gallantry with each other's wives, the anxiety about the company luggage and the company health. Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing
It was pretty shocking to see Beyer straight up pwn offensive linemen like this.
Bomber Command's air offensive against Germany was one of the epic campaigns of World War II.
There's that sickeningly familiar tone again - the rasping, grating, in isolation entirely inoffensive, six-string bravado.
Of all the offensive players entering the draft, Rogers is the best athlete.
Republicans went on the offensive over soaring gasoline prices.
Berard could be the piece the Bruins were missing last season and the offensive boost they need to make the difference during a tight playoff series.
These ‘comic’ stereotypes, regressive even in 1968, make the show seem not so much offensive as hopelessly dated.
Personally I think four letter words used in an offensive way are all objectionable.
What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another.
Nor are they as offensive as their contemporary fashion analog: the Birkenstock sandal, which is worn almost exclusively by grubby millionaires (Silicon Valley residents, Olsen twins): Colleen Werthmann: Hillary Clinton Pen-Pal Reveals Letters: "A Portrait of the Grown-Up Dork as a Young Dork"
The Foreign Secretary has decided to take the offensive in the discussion on the future of the community.
Also because James Caan's "Chinee" joke never gets any less jaw droppingly offensive, no matter if you know its coming or however many times you've seen it. Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
He can be sarcastic and severe without becoming offensive; his reproof often takes the form of humorous banter.
So although I find the term MILF is an objectification that the feminist in me finds totally offensive, I'll admit if the term was ever thrown at me, I'd see it strangely as a much-needed compliment. Got MILF?
However, Lisa comes right back on the offensive and warns her not to say a thing.
Such a failure suggests that being divided individual JCRs are unable to conquer the ever more united efforts by college bursars to mount a uniform offensive on subsidisation.
He's always making rude remarks about women. I find that deeply offensive.
Sorry if I had to disqualify your entry for lack of taste or offensiveness in general.
By the third day the acetous fermentation had begun in all of them, and in a few more days each emitted an offensive odor.
Corporate conduct has to be particularly poor or offensive before our judges get their dander up, but that's what seems to have happened in this case against the CBA
The symbolism of the pole decorated with ribbons and garlands was deeply offensive to the Puritans and maypoles were forbidden by Oliver Cromwell's parliament from 1644.
I asked them if they supposed a nation of people ever existed, who, with a free vote in every man's hand, would elect that a single family and its descendants should reign over it forever, whether gifted or boobies, to the exclusion of all other families -- including the voter's; and would also elect that a certain hundred families should be raised to dizzy summits of rank, and clothed on with offensive transmissible glories and privileges to the exclusion of the rest of the nation's families -- _including his own_. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.
Snakebite Orks always carry a selection of venomous serpents with them when they migrate to new planets, just in case the indigenous lifeforms prove to be unsuitably inoffensive .
We've received a complaint from one of our listeners about offensive language.
For the team to make the playoffs, the offensive line has to play well in the running game.
Bobby Jindal, the offensive Republican governor of Louisiana just refused, yes * refused* to accept $90 billion in federal stimulus funds. BlogHer
Offensive language, such as profanities and expletives; sexually explicit or pornographic material; hate speech; defamatory, abusive, threatening or harassing speech; or racial, religious or personal attacks of any kind Home | The New York Observer
But Pentagon say and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said that may get a reworking because some Muslim groups have said that the term infinite justice could be offensive to Muslims because in their religion, only Allah can dispense ultimate or infinite justice -- Wolf. CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2001
In the facing of this offensive against the working class, the trade unions have demonstrated their complete prostration to the powers that be.
I prefer the term scarier, especially offensively. Chicagotribune.com - News
Political correctness has certainly not hindered my ability to be vulgar or offensive.
Apart from these early offensive operations, Japanese paratroops were mostly used as raiding forces.
The early exchanges were keen and only excellent defending by Castlecomer prevented Tralee capitalising on a number of offensive moves.
The poet's worship is so supersensual as to be inoffensive. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
As long as unsolicited e-mail was not entirely offensive, I usually found it fairly amusing, even the commercial sort.
It's inoffensive and unchallenging guitars alongside a basic melody. The Sun
He was convicted of carrying an offensive weapon .
See Republican critic after Republican critic blast these money-grubbing, greedy, lazy, freeloading moneybags who are offensively overpaid, get off work at a leisurely 2:30 in the afternoon, have three months of vacation, and can live off their fat pensions in high-life luxury retirement, jetting to Paris and Biarritz and drinking champagne cocktails while sucking the life out of the Real America. Robert J. Elisberg: Revealed: Who Actually Caused America's Financial Collapse
The word 'lady' has connotations of refinement and excessive femininity that some women find offensive.
The result is a highly inoffensive, passable sound which has its interesting, if unremarkable, moments.
It will be found always covered, whenever the utensil is not empty, by condensed offensive moisture. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
A major offensive was launched on August 22.
It could cap off an immense performance that has embraced all types of offensive records and included the development of a dynamic defense.
Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . . The ideal of the gentleman
Aside from the heinous grammar, I find the rape-jokiness of this very offensive. Tew's Day!
He said part of his offensive progress can be attributed to the fact that his teammates are learning his tendencies, this after he had an abbreviated preseason and training camp with the team after coming over as a big-ticket free agent from the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks in December. The Unlikely Scoring Threat
By her kind, her meek, her inoffensive behaviour, she had conciliated the sincere good will of all her neighbours and acquaintance; nor amid the busy cares of time was she ever forgetful of Eternity. Letter 413
The government forces continued with their offensive in Nyarubanga.
When, for instance, people protested against the rudeness, grubbiness and incompetence of train and bus conductors (a popular subject), the route, the date and time, and details of offensive behaviour were always given.
Virginia's longest offensive gain spanned 13 yards, and it was the first time North Carolina had held a team to fewer than 200 yards in five years. USATODAY.com - Scores
Most team use the offensive free throw as a convenient break in the action to setup their press.
With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
By all means take some action to curtail offensive activity. Times, Sunday Times
As they made changes in the military doctrine, its authors practically obviated such concepts as strategic offensive operation in continental TO.
The offensive began several days ago as an attempt to relieve the town.
Today, we can reveal he is back in England, and will appear before Hull Crown Court next Friday, charged with being concerned in the production of cannabis, conspiracy to supply cannabis, and having an offensive weapon.
Noncrime hate incidents include offensive or insulting comments. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, even using a handkerchief or a tissue at the table to blow, rather than to blot discreetly, would be offensive.
The West African forces went on the offensive in response to attacks on them.
Since then, they have experienced three straight seasons of offensive decline, culminating with their anemic performance against the Diamondbacks in the World Series.
In 2006 the case was thrown out by California's supreme court, which ruled that this kind of freewheeling babble, albeit offensive and embarrassing when circulated in court documents, was an entirely essential element of the "creative workplace" required to make the show – a show that, in case you needed reminding, was hardly Tramadol Nights in terms of nihilistic edginess. Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say
Securing the base meant conducting offensive ground combat operations.
The point is not to engage offensive against Somali pirates.
A quiet, kind and inoffensive woman she enjoyed the simple things in life and looked forward to a weekly game of bingo.
In general, in-flight films are supposed to be as inoffensive and unstimulating as possible.
I will in future regard your writings and opinions as the product of an offensive and foul-mouthed individual.
Banners, meanwhile, must be ‘tasteful, non-offensive, non-vulgar, non-political, non-racial, non-discriminatory, non-sexual’ and carry no advertising.
Belleau Wood, taken in the offensive, was recaptured by the US 2nd Division, its attack led by the 4th Marine Brigade.
By this point Aunt Sally has moved on to the next offensive remark.
Wellington at once resumed the offensive; Ciudad Rodrigo fell before him on January twelfth, 1812, and on April eighth, after one of the bravest and bloodiest assaults recorded in English annals, Badajoz also was carried. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
Or, you could argue that our language has become downright coarse, offensive and rude.
It simply reflects how narrow the accepted terrain of public discussion has become, at a time when ideas can be dismissed out-of-hand as being in bad taste or offensive.
You are on a charm offensive as Mars cross matches with the sun and your sizzle factor is off the scale. The Sun

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