The quotation marks around "up to" suggest two unequally offensive meanings: "good enough for" or "equal to", which is merely patronising, and "conniving".
Watch out for words such as "fanny" that have different and offensive meanings.
Carr also said Manning was a "red belt" when it came to knowledge of the Giants' offensive system — meaning a master — and receiver Victor Cruz added, "By no means do I think our timing's going to be off or anything like that".
To be shocking, to be offensive: the meaning of these noble terms might not be obvious.
And, he added, foreign forces should "be in defensive mode rather than being in offensive mode," meaning that commanders should restrain their forces unless they are attacked.
Crosby had been having success at this World Cup by getting possession of the puck through aggressive forechecking in the offensive zone, meaning he had a shorter path to the goal.
Schoenberg's refusal was based not on an assessment of the extent of the sketches, but on the discovery that the libretto allowed a character to use the highly offensive expression "Saujud", meaning "pig-Jew".
She, like many others, has called for an abuse button to be located on each tweet - meaning offensive statements can be flagged to moderators easily.
He called it "radical and simple at the same time, subversive and good-hearted, offensive without really meaning to be".
David Frum thinks that "whoever's explaining is losing and, for the most part, Clinton was on the defensive and Trump offensive" (in both meanings of the word?).
