Sentence examples for offensive being from inspiring English sources
It was offensive, being ordered about n one's own home this way, having Henry referred to as a grasping old man, almost a drunk.
Early on they encounter a priest who gives a raging sermon about the Jews, the Turks and the slave Gypsies, who are given a number of epithets, the most common (and least offensive) being "crows".
Max Mosley's defiance, Sharon Shoesmith's intransigence and Blair's hugely resented refusal to apologise for Iraq should, surely, be less offensive, being genuine and revelatory, than the phony repentance of a Lord Stevenson of HBOS, reading his script in 2009: "We are profoundly and I think unreservedly sorry at the turn of events".
Now a solicitor for the estate has pointed to "18 factual errors or unsupported assertions in just 16 pages of the book", the "most offensive" being an assertion that, after Hughes's death in 1998, his body was taken back to Devon from the London hospital where he had died, "the accompanying party stopping, as Ted the gastronome would have wanted, for a good lunch on the way".
The refinery had been under siege for 10 days with the militant offensive being repulsed several times.
The spring of 1973 passed with no offensive being launched.
The offensive was routed.
Tactically, the offensive was a colossal failure.
A diplomatic offensive was launched.
Kim's charm offensive is working.
