Sentence examples for rather offensive from inspiring English sources

Indeed, many Vietnamese found the timing of Mr Li's arrival rather offensive and thought that he should have postponed it to avoid intruding on their grief.

While Orenstein tempered the typical risk through her skillful use of personal narrative, I found her analogy of her own situation to transsexuality rather offensive.

Mr Oswalt hit "send" before he could stop himself, and his poor girlfriend ended up receiving a rather offensive text.Johnson would expect Mr Oswalt's relationships to have moved on from such moments of communicative meltdown.

I'll simply place Westwood's divisive and rather offensive comment with all the others I've heard from both the Yes and No camps of late, as a sign of the sad state we're in right now.

Chawla told Price he found some of his comments "rather offensive considering that you're essentially sticking up for people making misogynist comments and passing them off as joking and banter".

That rather offensive term is perhaps explained by the fact that this is a French person speaking English - and yet it does, as it were, name the elephant in the living room.

"I tried to be satirical rather than offensive," Robertson said of the mascots.

The scene in which Petruchio starves his new wife into submission is funny rather than offensive.

But the truth is there's something nostalgic, rather than offensive, about Look North's response.

But against the broader backdrop, this is more rightly seen as a defensive rather than offensive move.

I must say I do find the idea of a piece called What I Know About Men rather risibly offensive.