be offensive

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There was also the news that council districts in Northern England had instructed schoolteachers not to encourage children in classrooms to draw any pictures that might be offensive to Muslims.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Paul Scholes says an Instagram story post about Manchester United interim head coach Michael Carrick was "in no way intended to be offensive" towards his former team-mate.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

Yet the BBC did catch and remove a remark by “My Father’s Shadow” director Akinola Davies Jr. that it found to be offensive.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

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

Lever cut out most of the matter which he considered to be offensive or dangerous, and the result was that Dr Kenealy sent his editor a challenge.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund