be offensive
Example Sentences
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He said that if he and his team had felt the campaign would be offensive in that way, “we never would’ve done it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
The Booker-winning novelist has previously expressed his opposition to "sensitivity readers", the practice of hiring someone to read a manuscript before its publication in order to point out things that might be offensive to readers.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
If a doctor uses “you” incorrectly with a patient, it could be offensive, Wong said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Spectrum WT sued, arguing that drag wasn’t designed to be offensive and portraying it as a celebration of many things, including “queerness, gender, acceptance, love and especially femininity.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024
To an extent this characteristic was apparent in everything he did; but to those who came to know him it ceased to be offensive because of other, more agreeable qualities which went with it.
From The Bachelors A Novel by Orcutt, William Dana
