offensive

There is no such thing as speech so hateful or offensive it somehow “justifies” or “legitimizes” the use of violence.

It is not only clerics and Islamic ideologues who use offensive words and images to describe the sexual life of Westerners.

After all, the Russians were about to mount a winter offensive of their own.

Seeking to be celebrated for simply hiring a woman is tokenizing and offensive.

The story was so appalling, the attack so brutish and morally offensive, that it provoked an immediate, furious response.

It being offensive to the French, they took none of it with them on their return.

They determined that an offensive war should be carried on against them, and voted to raise 90 men!

But he is as insolent as you could wish, and has a superb confidence in himself that his enemies call by the most offensive names.

The climax was reached when a most offensive policeman in a dictatorial manner ordered me to 'Move on.'

Her directness had made all possible 'buts' seem ridiculous and futile, and had made the expression of curiosity seem offensive.