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Offending   /əfˈɛndɪŋ/   Listen
Offending

adjective
1.
Offending against or breaking a law or rule.


Offend

verb
(past & past part. offended; pres. part. offending)
1.
Cause to feel resentment or indignation.  Synonym: pique.
2.
Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises.  Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, transgress, violate.  "Violate the basic laws or human civilization" , "Break a law" , "Break a promise"
3.
Strike with disgust or revulsion.  Synonyms: appal, appall, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock.
4.
Hurt the feelings of.  Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, spite, wound.  "This remark really bruised my ego"



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"Offending" Quotes from Famous Books



... territory should be curtailed. On the contrary, they would have welcomed its increase by the addition of territory inhabited by people of her own idiom, under German sway.[137] But the Dutch demurred, as Denmark had done in the matter of the third Schleswig zone, for fear of offending Germany. And the Supreme Council acquiesced in the refusal. Again, when issues were under discussion that turned upon the Rhine country and affected Belgian interests, her delegates were never consulted. They were systematically ignored by the Conference. When the capital of the League ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon
... tumbler in mid-air, had not been deft enough to keep the contents intact and about half of it had gone into the football manager's face. However, everyone there except Morton applauded enthusiastically and hilariously, and Larry Jones, sweeping his offending locks aside with the careless and impatient grace of a violin virtuoso, ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour
... abstained for some years, out of regard for Whitefield, from discussing in Conference a subject which was calculated to disturb the re-established harmony between him and his friend.[779] At any rate, the offending Minutes, oddly enough, begin by referring to what had passed at the first Conference, twenty-six years before. 'We said in 1744, We have leaned too much towards Calvinism.' After a long abeyance the subject is taken up at the ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
... knight of Burgundy: "What boots it thee, Sir Hagen, / that thus the chaplain die? Dared any else to do it, / thy wrath 'twould sorely stir. Wherein the priest's offending, / thus thy malice ...
— The Nibelungenlied - Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original • trans. by George Henry Needler
... her breast, stamping her feet, Mrs. Loring removed a few dresses from the offending trunk to the mahogany wardrobe, and disposed her effects neatly in the drawers of bureau ...
— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin


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