Sentence examples for overtly offensive from inspiring English sources

The tweeter later publicly apologised for his message to the Tory leader, conceding it was "wrong, ill-conceived and overtly offensive".

Characteristically, the teeth of Old World monkeys have a function in the maintenance of social order within the group as well as an overtly offensive role; their function as organs of digestion is relatively unimportant.

If Twitter has vastly increased the average user's exposure to rape threats, racist memes and anti-Semitic caricatures, it has also activated a kind of crowdsourced cultural auto-correct for policing less overtly offensive speech.

If appearing in blackface is so grotesquely racist, is so overtly offensive and warrants immediate resignation or dismissal, as we are now being told it is by many political figures and the media, how can the networks possibly sit back and not take action against them?

Because first amendment law tends to protect free speech above privacy in the U.S., an individual can't easily demand that someone else pull down what they wrote, unless the comments are either false or overtly offensive, he says.

Many of them now target their jihad internally on the Pakistani population, particularly threatening people they deem overtly offensive to Islam -- like musicians.

The material isn't overtly absurdist, offensive or angry, and you've heard many of the subjects before: commercial air travel, film and television, sports, binge drinking -- tropes long ago strip-mined by lesser comics.

Deadpool is clearly also a fan of "Doctor Who," because the red-spandexed, profane, overtly sexual, patently offensive master of the slice-and-dice is the kindest superhero of them all.

But in the interview, Ms. Jones, 46, disputed Ms. Spellberg's characterization, saying the book was "an epic love story and a story about women's empowerment" and was neither overtly sexual nor offensive.

With a few exceptions, most new asteroids can bear any name that is not offensive or overtly commercial or political.

While Beijing still censors art that it deems politically offensive, including overtly critical portrayals of the ruling Communist Party, economic and market reforms have changed the way the government thinks about art and the way the Central Academy trains young artists.