Sentence examples for rather offended from inspiring English sources

I rather offended my biographer by telling him that.

"Having grown up in the courts-martial system, I'm rather offended by it, because it is a good system that provides more than adequate due process for the men and women in our military service".

A friend, she says, recently bought her an advanced driving course for her birthday and she was rather offended until she attended it, 'and the instructor told me he could see 40 years of experience in my driving.' I ask about her plans for Luton.

Already king of his hereditary lands and soon to be elected emperor, he was also a strict Catholic and rather offended when, in 1618, cranky Protestants threw three Catholic bigwigs out of a window in Prague (though all three survived the plunge).

But I was rather offended by the notion of being so removed from reality as to require a school for trends, and repulsed at the blatant attempt to co-opt and commodify culture for business profit over participation and engagement with it.

And in the cases of both Syriza and UKIP, the parties were talking about something that didn't offend any political ideology, but rather, offended a basic human sense of fairness.

The Foreign Minister later said that she believed Mr Putin would be flattered rather than offended by the red face.

"The holidays really do come earlier each and every year," our faces seemed to say to one another, heartened rather than offended by the anachronism.

This revelation seems to have charmed rather than offended her; Barrie and she would be intimate friends for the rest of her life.

He wanted to create a place which complemented rather than offended the nature around it, so he used a traditional Norwegian "lafting" pine timber frame with a thick grass roof, which also insulates the property.

[I'm flattered rather than offended to be called a fat dyke by Lea.].