Words similar to offensive

Example sentences for: offensive

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They give the coming elite an egalitarian sensibility, so when they rise to the top, they won't give off offensive vapors that might arouse class resentments in the middle and lower class.
Charles Horner, who commanded the air offensive in the Gulf War, said that if Clinton's aim was to destroy the sites Iraq had declared off-limits to U.N. inspectors, "we have failed before even beginning, since nobody knows where they are."
He was reporting on a glossary, issued by the journalism school at the University of Missouri, proscribing certain words as being offensive to special groups of people.
Hence the Ford Explorer parked outside, which I would upgrade to an Expedition except that I live in a neighborhood filled with Naderite public interest lawyers who would firebomb my house if I drove anything so offensive.
Many profanities might be considered "patently offensive" descriptions of "sexual or excretory activities or organs," especially under the standards of some conservative communities.