be offensive
Example Sentences
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"Do you understand how both your language and behaviour could be offensive to Sam, your housemates and the viewing public?"
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
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
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 the unsympathetic eye, the hairstyle is peculiar, so childlike and unflattering as to be offensive.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
If it wasn’t such absolute nonsense it would be offensive.
From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills
