- Look up
offensive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Offensive may
refer to:
Offensive (military), type of
military operation Offensive, the
former name...
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qualify for registration, dogs must show
tranquillity in the
presence of
inoffensive strangers,
indifference to gunfire, and
aggressive defence of the owner...
- unpleasant. Some
euphemisms are
intended to amuse,
while others use bland,
inoffensive terms for
concepts that the user
wishes to downplay.
Euphemisms may be...
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where English took it from. The term can be
construed as offensive,
inoffensive, or
completely neutral,
largely depending on the
region or
country where...
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Indian subcontinent or of
Indian descent" and an at
least originally inoffensive, old-fashioned meaning, for
example "dated an
unskilled native labourer...
- worse", from
peior "worse". In
historical linguistics, the
process of an
inoffensive word
becoming pejorative is a form of
semantic drift known as pejoration...
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trumpeting "polite" entertainment, a
commitment to
entertainment equally inoffensive to men,
women and children. Acts that
violated this
ethos (e.g., those...
- In the
United States,
particularly in the
Midwest and South, it is an
inoffensive slang term
meaning "small animal". The term is used in the vernacular...
- his company, the Société Française de
Teintures Inoffensives pour
Cheveux (French
Company of
Inoffensive Hair Dyes), the ****ure L'Oréal. In his production...
- the yakṣas have a dual personality. On the one hand, a yakṣa may be an
inoffensive nature-fairy, ****ociated with
woods and mountains; but
there is also...
