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Example sentences for: offense

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an alternative to a dispreferred expression, in order to avoid possible loss of face: either one's own face or, through giving offense, that of the audience, or of some third party.
In other words, Bauer's offense is that he dismissed a perception he knew to be false.
My question: Why do so many people take offense at my wearing pants to the many functions I must attend?
The Journal 's editorial page scored one point for the original omission in its Feb. 19 piece; four points for the continued omission in two follow-ups; and six more points for every day of publication since the original offense.
Here Metabolife interjects the following explanatory note: "Nine years ago, Michael Ellis received five years probation for the use of a telephone to facilitate a drug trafficking offense committed in 1989 ."