Sentence examples for had been offensive from inspiring English sources

At the debate, sponsored by the Evening Standard, Michael Eboda, former editor of New Nation, said that some of Johnson's writings had been offensive.

I asked her to review it and she referred to three instances where she felt I had been offensive to her, but didn't offer specifics.

Hicks' revelation about Parry's involvement in the Klinsmann meeting came when he hit back at the weekend at Parry's suggestion that his calls for the Liverpool chief executive to quit had been "offensive".

Brass Eye provoked a record number of complaints and Channel 4 was forced to broadcast an apology after the independent television commission upheld viewers' complaints that the show had been offensive.

On Friday, the "Fox & Friends" hosts questioned whether Mr. Obama's remarks about his grandmother had been offensive — a process that involved playing the "typical white person" quote over and over again — and two of the three hosts seemed to say that they were.

Masha thought they had been offensive to God.

The tone of the debate has been offensive and obnoxious.

France's intervention record has been offensive to economic liberals since long before the recent sagas.

Of course, for as long as there has been comedy, there has been offensive comedy.

Where it might have been offensive to people who were there, I'm sorry about that.

He says some of the gung-ho coverage of the conflict in the tabloids has been "offensive".