Words similar to offensive

Example sentences for: offensive

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Adults generally have the right to see material that's "patently offensive."
Faced with the prospect of renewed rioting, Iran's chief cleric told hard-liners to chill out over a campus newspaper piece in Tehran that many found offensive, the NYT reports.
breadfruit-swopper (derogatory and offensive) a person so poor that he or she has nothing to offer in exchange for any item but a home-grown breadfruit (which nearly everybody already has).
' The RHD labels the term “( sometimes offensive ),” which does not mean that it is offensive occasionally but that it is offensive to some people (presumably Irish).
Certainly the strategy should include offensive operations to counter terrorism.