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Discover Ludwig"give offense" is certainly a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it when referring to an act or remark that causes someone to feel insulted or angry. For example, "Allowing smoking in a crowded theater would give offense to many people."
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hesitant to give offense?
To the contrary, it will only give offense and alienate".
The whole point of being a good host is not to give offense.
Great effort is made not to give offense to any party.
Otherwise, your cleaning-lady act may imply filth and give offense.
But Mr. Scrushy is also noted for a brusque style that can easily give offense.
But to this crowd Mr. Lee's lasciviousness did not give offense.
Artistic merits aside, one never knows when public art is going to give offense.
Mr. Dennett understands, too, that iconoclasm, with its lack of deference, can also give offense.
Nobody owns her, yet she doesn't give offense because of that.
Herriman, like Krazy, might have decided "to choose whatever wouldn't give offense," Tisserand proposed.
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