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UK
/əfˈɛnsɪvli/
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[ US /əˈfɛnsɪvɫi/ ]
[ US /əˈfɛnsɪvɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in an unpleasantly offensive manner
he smelled offensively unwashed -
in an aggressive manner
the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean
`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said -
in an obnoxious manner
he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences
How To Use offensively In A Sentence
- The appreciation for and tolerance of being called the N-word by anyone and for whatever reason, is tantamount to accepting the moniker of monkey, baboon or some other primate to which Blacks have offensively been compared.
- He's a workhorse on a team that plays hard defensively, but provides little cushion offensively.
- With computer systems being insecure, governments lax, people untrustworthy and buyable, putting this kind of very personal, very important, very vulnerable information into the hands of people only because it's a nice revenue stream is offensively stupid.
- I presume the aim is to provide an atmosphere that is inoffensively opulent, timeless and bland, so that nothing distracts you from thinking about the sensation in your mouth.
- It was a pallid-eyed youth of eighteen in overalls who received Michael, receipted for him to the expressman, and carried his crate into a slope-floored concrete room that smelled offensively and chemically clean. CHAPTER XXIV
- Offensively, I'm going to run the floor and try to outwork my man.
- The whole experience was offensively inoffensive - mechanically brilliant but creatively dead.
- You have two defensive tricks, but a bare hand offensively. Times, Sunday Times
- Fordyce has struggled offensively all season but is signed for two more years.
- Without body and sufficient fruit flavors, Sauvignon blanc wines from the Loire Valley are offensively vegetal and aggressively acidic.