Sentence examples for was being offensive from inspiring English sources

They thought I was being offensive".

The rapper wrote that he knew he was being offensive when he was contacted by people struggling directly or indirectly with autism.

In Clychau yn y Glaw ("Bells in the rain", 1973) she described an idyllic childhood on the family farm; one of her anecdotes is about her small brother, a monoglot Welsh-speaker, pointing up at the sun and saying "Haul!" to a German prisoner of war, who thought he was being offensive until it was explained to him that "haul" is the Welsh word for "sun".

This was being offensive to be offensive.

"If I was being offensive to her in any way, she would have left".

"I didn't think for a second when I did it that I was being offensive," he explained.

You suggest I'm being "offensive".

"You could say something and have no idea you were being offensive, and be punished," he said.

We don't want to confront that unpleasant truth, so it takes a lot of push-back to admit that we're being offensive.

Better Together head Alistair Darling said the nationalists were being "offensive" and "divisive" by labelling themselves as "Team Scotland" and their opponents as "Team Westminster".

Hey #Blobla #BelikeBill is being offensive!