The phrase "avoid offence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the importance of not upsetting or offending someone in communication or behavior.
Example: "In order to maintain a positive atmosphere, it's essential to avoid offence when discussing sensitive topics."
Alternatives: "prevent offense" or "steer clear of offense".
It's not a case of turning the page to avoid offence.
In Europe Miss Suu Kyi, fielding questions by stressing the importance of the rule of law, managed to avoid offence.
Clearly Jamie Oliver was trying to avoid offence by excluding an ingredient (Letters, 6 October; Report, 5 October).
His one-liners have magically managed to avoid offence, which also makes him well-liked by the celebrity attendees.
But history, like literature, is messy and complex and should not be reduced to a bland consensus designed to avoid offence.
In an article for the Sunday Times, he criticised the instinct to avoid offence, and lack of willingness to discuss race.
"Avoiding offence", she says, "means that we don't accept each other as equals".In one respect, her tactics have not had the desired effect.
It flattered voters and activists by telling them they "give the marching orders" while avoiding offence by leaning even slightly left or right.
England Scotlandd's legal system is different) is changing the law to grant greater immunity to internet platforms that give complainants easy access to content originators.Some users value avoiding offence more highly than the risk of censorship.
So convinced must we have been that we were going to run into trouble that Shane's original vocal only exists in the masters of the record, the less temperate version on the multi-track having been erased in favour of avoiding offence.
He was less successful in avoiding offence with another photograph, this time of the Prince in his bath during the voyage; after it was published, George V strongly objected to it as inappropriate, and Brooks was reprimanded.
