Example sentences for: offensive

How can you use “offensive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My objection to the Brooklyn Museum's show is that it's provocation without substance; it isn't so much offensive as it is dull and predictable.

  • at times laugh-out-loud awful, at times offensive" (Daryl H. Miller, the Los Angeles Times ). The film uses only two lines of Shakespeare's actual poetry (but is otherwise peppered with cheesy "I reckon"s).

  • Kurtzman's "No Shortage of Filth To Rile Righteous Rudy" points to exhibits at the Whitney and MoMA that are certainly equally if not more offensive than the exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.

  • M&S also go out of their way to praise usages that neatly sidestep offensive usage.

  • Many profanities might be considered "patently offensive" descriptions of "sexual or excretory activities or organs," especially under the standards of some conservative communities.


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