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offensively |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Offensive \Of*fen"sive\, a. [Cf.F. offensif See {Offend}.] 1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as offensive words 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as an offensive smell; offensive sounds. ``Offensive to the stomach.'' --Bacon. 3. Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence used in attacking; -- opposed to {defensive}; as an offensive war; offensive weapons. {League offensive and defensive}, a leaque that requires all the parties to it to make war together against any foe, and to defend one another if attacked. Syn: Displeasing; disagreeable; distasteful; obnoxious; abhorrent; disgusting; impertinent; rude; saucy; reproachful; opprobrious; insulting; insolent; abusive; scurrilous; assailant; attacking; invading. -- {Of*fen"sive*ly}, adv -- {Of*fen"sive*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: offensively adv 1: in an unpleasantly offensive manner; "he smelled offensively unwashed" [ant: {inoffensively}] 2: in an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences" [syn: {objectionably}, {obnoxiously}] 3: in an aggressive manner; "`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said"; "the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean" [ant: {defensively}]
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