Example sentences for: offensively

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

  • She wouldn't praise a film she found offensively treacly or that trafficked in positive stereotypes because she thought it would ennoble the folks in rural America who saw only a handful of pictures a year.

  • Although some Indians assimilated the language and behavior of the British, to most the imperialists were offensively aloof.

  • So Sobel has to fire a gun and Vitti has to get in touch with his blubbery inner child--shticks that sound more offensively pat than they play, largely because Crystal's handling of a pistol and De Niro's bawling like a 3-year-old seem like sensible therapies for each actor . In the last few years, Crystal's high-profile hosting chores have made his hunger for approval seem too sweatily transparent.

  • Some of his teams have been strong offensively, others defensively.

  • Conservatives profess shock that something so "remarkably balanced" was produced by "offensively biased" PBS (Jay Nordlinger, the Weekly Standard ). An exultant Wall Street Journal editorial says the show signals that "honest liberals" have found a "new appreciation" for Reagan.


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