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Example sentences for: offensive

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Would she apply the same reasoning to her issue of hate speech and say for example that the n***** word shouldn't be offensive because it is widely found in 19 th -century American literature and is sometimes used by blacks in referring to each other?
Readers who feel that big subjects can only be properly addressed in big books--which present big ideas, using big words--will find my intellectual style offensive.
While it's probably true that democracies are unlikely to go to war unless they're attacked, sometimes they are the first to take the offensive.
John Waters once said that he would like to make a film that received an X or NC-17 rating with no foul language or genitalia--"it would just be so offensive to people's values."
According to Justice Anthony Kennedy, it's a place where people "practice newly learned vulgarities, erupt with anger, tease and embarrass each other, share offensive notes, flirt, push and shove in the halls, grab and offend."