- 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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Guatemalan Latin Pop
singer Ricardo Arjona's 2006 song
Mojado uses the word
inoffensively, as he
describes a
migrant s****ing a
better life in
another country...
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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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trumpeting "polite" entertainment, a
commitment to
entertainment equally inoffensive to men,
women and children. Acts that
violated this
ethos (e.g., those...
- unpleasant. Some
euphemisms are
intended to amuse,
while others use bland,
inoffensive terms for
concepts that the user
wishes to downplay.
Euphemisms may be...
-
strangely united in the last of
their successors", "The life of this
inoffensive youth was
spared by the
generous clemency of Odoacer; who
dismissed him...
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suggest a
contract to
Mallory for a signature.
Mallory could find both an
inoffensively-modified
version of this fair
contract that has the same
signature as...
- was
originally used by
classical scholars as "a bookish, and
therefore inoffensive term for
writing about prostitutes", but its
meaning was
quickly expanded...
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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...
- 2018, pp. 11, 279n13.
Kapur 2018, p. 11. Kowalski,
Frank (2014). An
Inoffensive Rearmament: The
Making of the
Postwar ****anese Army.
Naval Institute...
