Sentence examples for thus offending from inspiring English sources
The other view is that Mr. Lack came on too strong soon after his promotion, assuming too much power and thus offending Mr. Wright.
A year later, he had married his niece Martina, thus offending the religious scruples of many of his subjects, who viewed his second marriage as incestuous and Martina as accursed.
But a frank assessment of character caused less reaction then revelations about his attachment to the wartime Vichy regime and his hatred for De Gaulle, whom he described as a "new Hitler", thus offending the Free French leader so deeply that De Gaulle joined the Nazis and Vichy in banning Saint-Exupéry's writings.
But I didn't sue or demand a silly apology even though the only thing I'd ever written about OBL was: "A certain sort of wet Western self-loathing lefty, if they came across Saddam Hussein and OBL spit-roasting their very own poor old mum, they'd say 'Deserves it – she looked at them funny, thus offending their precious Arab pride!'" This time though, it is personal.
The implication that she should publicly express her support for the Whigs offended Anne; at the service Sarah told the Queen to "be quiet" after Anne continued the argument, thus offending the Queen still further.
When, in 1765, an obtuse British government attempted to finance the costs of defending the colonies by a stamp tax, imposed on legal documents and journals (thus offending Adams in both his professional and his intellectual worlds), he identified with the tax resisters against the Stuarts.
He thus offended both the reformers, who wished no partisan removals, and his fellow Democrats, whose nominees he rejected.
Marriage discrimination thus offends religious conscience as much as it serves it.
Beastly comparisons thus quickly offend our "higher" senses, except perhaps when honoring our physical and sexual prowess.
Bill Maher's hilarious documentary Religulous makes every conceivable effort to ridicule, and thus to offend, religions with most of the focus on Christianity, but distributing nice jabs to orthodox Judaism and Islam as well.
