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offensively
adverb as in obnoxiously
Weak matches
adverb as in outrageously
Strongest match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
It was defined by its offensively high price, pretentious waiting lists and limited edition variations.
Fowler elaborated that none of the offensively-sloganed shirts had ever sold.
There's no stopping you now as planet moves offensively block would-be distractions and detractors.
Jace Lacob on where the Fox musical-comedy has gone horribly, offensively wrong.
And few complain when offensively small briefs are worn by hot male models.
They were armed defensively with a shield, and offensively with a curved sword, and a flintlock musket slung at the saddle-bow.
It needed little to decide me, and I think K—'s arrival from Switzerland, offensively sunburnt, was the finishing touch.
He hesitated a moment, as if studying how to order his words so as to express least offensively an offensive truth.
Then the beautiful nature of Paterson loomed offensively, and his honest eyes insulted over me.
She seemed, I thought—in the utter blank depression which had seized me with the doctor's words—offensively calm.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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