other words for offend
- aggrieve
- anger
- annoy
- antagonize
- disgust
- disturb
- exasperate
- gall
- horrify
- hurt
- irritate
- outrage
- provoke
- rile
- shock
- sicken
- sting
- upset
- affront
- disgruntle
- disoblige
- distress
- fret
- jar
- miff
- nauseate
- nettle
- pain
- pique
- repel
- repulse
- sin
- slight
- slur
- snub
- transgress
- trespass
- vex
- wound
- be disagreeable
- turn one off
- zing
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
“I thought it was a lot and I thought it was unnecessary, but I think it’s important that I keep my opinions to myself because it’s not going to be pleasant,” she said, indicating that she was personally offended by Adefeso’s actions.
I am also personally offended that Baggott gives short shrift to superdeterminism.
Without the videos, these offenders would have been free to offend again.
Gulf nations have repeatedly been accused of using Pegasus to target political opposition, resulting later in trumped-up charges for offending royal families or the like.
The effect is singular, and, at the first moment, seems to offend.
Let us make both of them smile, if we can, and endeavour to offend neither.
Do not press me on that point, if you please, I might astonish and offend you.
That sentence need not offend an admirer of Walt Whitman, for he "accepts both theism and the doctrine of the future life."
That might be safer—but also it would mar the climacteric effect and so offend his sense of artistic fitness.
Doctor Heath flatters himself; in what manner could he offend me?
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WORDS RELATED TO OFFEND
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- bash
- belittle
- berate
- blow off
- calumniate
- cap
- castigate
- cuss out
- cut down
- cut to the quick
- decry
- defame
- derogate
- discount
- do a number on
- dump on
- give a black eye
- hurl brickbat
- insult
- knock
- minimize
- nag
- offend
- oppress
- persecute
- pick on
- put down
- rag on
- reproach
- revile
- ride
- rip up
- run down
- scold
- signify
- slam
- slap
- sling mud
- smear
- sound
- swear at
- tear apart
- trash
- upbraid
- vilify
- vituperate
- zing
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- bash
- belittle
- berate
- blow off
- calumniate
- cap
- castigate
- cuss out
- cut down
- cut to the quick
- decry
- defame
- derogate
- discount
- do a number on
- dump on
- give a black eye
- hurl brickbat
- insult
- knock
- minimize
- nag
- offend
- oppress
- persecute
- pick on
- put down
- rag on
- reproach
- revile
- ride
- rip up
- run down
- scold
- signify
- slam
- slap
- sling mud
- smear
- sound
- swear at
- tear apart
- trash
- upbraid
- vilify
- vituperate
- zing
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- bash
- belittle
- berate
- blow off
- calumniate
- cap
- castigate
- cuss out
- cut down
- cut to the quick
- decry
- defame
- derogate
- discount
- do a number on
- dump on
- give a black eye
- hurl brickbat
- insult
- knock
- minimize
- nag
- offend
- oppress
- persecute
- pick on
- put down
- rag on
- reproach
- revile
- ride
- rip up
- run down
- scold
- signify
- slam
- slap
- sling mud
- smear
- sound
- swear at
- tear apart
- trash
- upbraid
- vilify
- vituperate
- zing