Sentence examples for and designed to offend from inspiring English sources

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The ideal Breitbart headline is provocative and designed to offend progressive sensibilities.

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Which reminds me of a great costume joke once made by Chris Morris, designed to offend and overshooting its target, from the Channel 4 Brass Eye special on hysteria surrounding pedophiles.

It was designed to offend them and it's a very offensive sign and it's going to upset a lot of people around here". .

Castrated jocks reading off a pre-approved script that's designed to offend no one and bore everyone.

If you dislike Halloween, you probably fall into one of two camps: those who are outright put off by the transformation of kids' cartoon fun into the kind of burlesque you see at clubs behind truck stops and by the off-ramp of the freeway, and those who, obliging the wearer, take umbrage at costumes designed to offend.

Now that was the sort of joke a left-wing comedian should be making, in that it was designed to offend the mighty in support of the vulnerable, and Mr Boyle was justly livid about the apology.

Instead, he built a stage for perverted nightmares, with a pilot designed to offend.

In a final parting shot, clearly designed to offend, Breivik used his chance to address the court by apologising to "militant nationalists" across Europe, apparently for not killing more people during his two attacks.

I found myself with a new neighbour, her opening conversational line designed to offend.

Zedd had avoided showing his parents many of his films – which were "designed to offend people like them" – but they had always supported him as an artist.

A few lines of dialogue from the current season represent some of the roughest material, comedically, that the show's explored material seemingly designed to offend the sensibilities of anyone who's ever tacked on an "-ism" to a word to register disgust.

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